{"id":213,"date":"2016-01-23T20:29:23","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T01:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/?page_id=213"},"modified":"2016-02-08T12:21:43","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T17:21:43","slug":"definition-5","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/exhibit\/definition\/definition-5\/","title":{"rendered":"..."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Safe Post and Jockpost artistamps, 1963<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Robert Watts (1923-1988)<\/b><br \/>\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brown University Library Special Collections<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fluxus\">Fluxus<\/a> artist <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Watts_(artist)\">Robert Watts<\/a> created several series of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Artistamp\">\u201cartistamps\u201d<\/a> to comment on politics, authority,<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and popular culture. His works are the earliest known stamps to be printed as art pieces, and feature mashups of art masterpieces, postcard imagery, advertisements, and popular portraiture. \u201cSafe Post\u201d and \u201cJockpost\u201d stamps were made available as sheets and in stamp-dispensing machines in exhibit spaces.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/WattsStamps_scans_web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-321 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/WattsStamps_scans_web.jpg\" alt=\"WattsStamps_scans_web\" width=\"635\" height=\"305\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Safe Post and Jockpost artistamps, 1963 Robert Watts (1923-1988) Brown University Library Special Collections Fluxus artist Robert Watts created several series of \u201cartistamps\u201d to comment on politics, authority, and popular culture. His works are the earliest known stamps to be printed as art pieces, and feature mashups of art masterpieces, postcard imagery, advertisements, and popular <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/exhibit\/definition\/definition-5\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":48,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-213","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":978,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/213\/revisions\/978"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}