Let's coin a new word to name 'X'

The trickiest thing, I think, in coming up with a body of language to describe this project is when dealing with reproduction, which has been rendered more sophisticated by new technologies and new ways of trading. Earlier, I gave an example by comparing a commercialised postcard with an original artwork -- the presence and the absence of 'artistic intention' may sound clear in this case, but what if we are dealing with a certificated giclée print of this original artwork?

According to my art-specialist friend, a giclée print that comes with a signature, a number, a certificate of authenticity, or whatever that comes with the work to justify that the reproduction has been fully endorsed by the artist, is considered to be part of an often limited edition of the artwork. However, the customer who had purchased an authentic giclée may not be allowed to claim he/she has created a new X (which is an artwork) by adding a postage stamp and postmark on it -- unless he/she has been authorised by the artist to make a secondary derived work out of this authentic giclée.

Similarly, a Zazzle customer who had purchased a postcard featuring the same image endorsed by the artist to be made into diverse products by Zazzle cannot claim he/she has created a new X by adding a postage stamp and a postmark to it. Because X needs to be an artwork in the first place, but the postcard purchased from Zazzle is a mass product. However, he/she can claim to be making a (traditional or non-traditional) maxicard.

Now the complicated thing is when it comes to readymade -- What if this Zazzle customer uses the postcard he/she purchased -- which is a mass product -- to produce a derived work by adding his/her touch of personality (such as pairing it with a postage stamp and postmark) and claims the result to be a readymade? My take in this case is that theoretically this claim is valid, but my art-specialist friend thinks it will be hard for this Zazzle customer to come up with a background theory for his/her result to be accepted as an artwork by the artworld. Most likely, this Zazzle customer will be considered violating the artist's copyright. Complicated huh?

Do you not think philately as a business is less complicated? 

A name? What's in a name that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet?
Don't take care to the name of the rose, but to its profume

By the way, I thought I have allowed people to suggest new answers -- does this feature show up in the poll?

paul1 -- I am thinking of coining a new word because I like to use the 'perfectness' scheme I took from number theorists

'quasiperfect stamp related postcard art' sounds really long

But just like postcard is require to make a 'maxcard', stamp-related artwork is required to make a 'perfect X'. Maybe we can go with simple 'artwork', leaving the new coined word to be the 'postmarked final result' (which I call 'perfect X')?

I am awful with language, whence my asking the opinion of other forum members.

Actually, I didn't know the English word 'jolt' -- I am learning new things everyday by collecting stamps

paul1 -- X was once called 'linover' coined from 'Linda's cover' but I don't' like it ...

philatelia -- I think 'Philatelic Art' for the project's name is actually very good! Seeing that the scope of artworks I am envisaging goes beyond regular postcards.

have to say I rather like 'thematix' although it doesn't really nail the philatelic aspect.

I like that one. It's not especially glamourous, but it's a word that I think is just catchy enough to register and can have some staying power. People won't get tired of it. "Markframe" has some of the same qualities and a likeable techno/3D quality but probably wouldn't say enough about what it is.

I'm not all that partial to words that have "o" as a joiner. A lot of blaah-o-blaah words have a hyphenated "o" for a light or catchy effect ("laugh-o-meter", the early "cruise-o-matic" automatic transmissions in Fords, "Veg-o-matic", "Box-o-(blaah)"). It's kind of a Fifties/Sixties thing, and words like that have a cuteness quality that sounds cool at first but can wear out its welcome.

Eggdog, self-important word snot, at your service 

I feel that -card is not a very ideal suffix because the word 'card' usually denotes something small in scale. Even though it's the case with most of X -- because stamps and cancels are usually small in size, aesthetically the work shouldn't be too large for the whole to 'look good' -- there is no theoretical limitation on the dimensions of X, which can be much larger than a typical 'card'.

For the same reason I am thinking of changing the name of the project 'Postkard Art' to something else ... I just feel sorry for salentin who gave my project such a beautiful name years ago.

So, 5 out of 10 people had voted for 'philagraph'. I now conclude that this philately-inspired art object is henceforth called a philagraph!

As to the name of the project, I am trying to decide between Philatelic Art and PhilArt ...

Then we are left with Philatelic Art!

I honestly didn't think of Twitter when using 'X' to denote the thing, because it's a common symbol in maths to denote an unknown. I only learned about Twitter's name change after reading people's posts on this forum.

For the name of the project, AI also suggested:

- Philagraphic Chronicles
- Philatelic Impressionaries