02 Jun

Posted at 14:55h in EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

DIjon: Musee Rude, 1973
30 x 21cm, 76pp plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue that should be regarded as a joint artist's book - with original contributions by Boltanski, Le Gac and Annette Messager.
Boltanski's part is "5 BROUILLONS DE CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI MARS - MAI 1973" - five hand-written texts in facsimile of the artist's handwriting which discuss various projects undertaken in the past year.
Le Gac has "L'ENQUETE" - a quasi thriller short story with one b/w image. Messager has "SUR LES TRAVAUX DE L'ATELIER" - again texts in reproduction of her originals although typed. ` VG+ condition. Scarce.

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02 Jun

Posted at 10:20h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Oxford: Museum of Modern Art. 1973
18 x 11cm, 8pp (self cover). An early artist's book which shows 52 small b/w images of what is claimed to be the belongings of a woman (it is not clear if she is dead or alive) from "hankerchiefs to cupboards". This is one of the artist's first "arxhive projects" where a life is displayed through the things owned by an individual.
In a note at the end Boltanski explains that he had written to a number of museums to initiate such a project - to show the things owned by an anonymous person with "concerning themselves with such things as classification and labelling" - most refused however Peter Ibsen at the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford agreed to the show and this book both is the documentation, catalogue and artist's publication from that event. VG+.

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16 May

Posted at 16:38h in Artist's Postcards

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1973.
10.5 x 14.8cm, 2pp. Artist's card a photograph of a model airplane by George Oliver. The model by Finlay is a biplane with floats and is floating above a sink of water with the plug in as if it has just landed.
The decals on the model are British roundels - the circular blue, white and red symbols that indicated the plane was a British fighter. The shape of the plug is very similar to the roundels and hence in its own way might be regarded as a decal. Hence the plug might be regarded as a bath roundel. VG+.

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07 May

Posted at 19:29h in Artist's Postcards

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1973
7.9 x 11.3cm, 6pp single folding card which opens to 11.2 x 34.3ccm. The front of the card has the word COPYRIGHT and once the card is opened the drawing by Costley of a steamer has a red C on the funnel - a symbol that means "copyright". A company brand symbol used to indicate others had copied the boat. This is one of only 300 such card printed - each is numbered and signed by Finlay in ink.VG+ example

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11 Apr

Posted at 10:29h in Page Works & Contributions

London: LA Wallrich Books, n.d. (1971)
22 x 14cm, 400 (including wrappers - a book dealer's catalogue only notable for the cover design by Finlay of Homage to Jonathan Williams. Finlay is thanks for the contribution by the publisher. The internal pages list books available for purchase but here the page listing Finlay has been torn out neatly. It does not really matter - with that exception this is in VG condition.

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10 Apr

Posted at 18:57h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Frankfurt: AQ Photos supplement, 1973
22.5 x 14cm, 6pp (single folded sheet). A supplement to the AQ artist's journal entirely dedicated to five b/w images of Boltanski playing the role of his parents in posed photographs. The supplement was a publicity brochure for the journal but it is effectively a Boltanski artist's book. To our knowledge this is not referenced in any catalogue raisonne. VG+. Scarce.

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07 Apr

Posted at 19:11h in Artist's Books

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1973
9 x 7.5cm, 12pp plus card covers and printed dust jacket. Artist's book with Simon Cutts where similar sentences as subtly changes each illusrated by Sydney McK Glen with a landscape vignette. The sentences are "I prefer the streams of the mountains to the sea"/"I prefer the street of the mountains to the sea"/"I prefer the streaks of the mountains to the sea"/"I prefer the straiks of the mountains to the sea". The last work straiks is an unusual one - a less used version of the word stroke. Each slight change to the sentence gives a different poetic image of the landscape.
VG+ although the cheap staples are showing some rust.

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04 Apr

Posted at 19:18h in Artist's Books

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1973
15.2 x 11.6cm, 16pp plus card covers and printed dust jacket. Artist's book listing a series of forenames in facsimile of handwriting in red
The names are "Rufe Betty, Val, Tony, Kate, judy, Nick, Cherry, Jill, Jake, Nell, Emily, Zeke" which are all nicknames of world war aircraft.
"In the second half of 1942, a colorful set of code names was developed in the Southwest Pacific Theater by the Air Technical Intelligence Unit (ATIU) of the Allied Air Forces in Australia. The head of the unit, Captain Frank T. McCoy Jr. was from Nashville, Tennessee, and the first few code names were hillbilly names such as ZEKE, NATE, PETE, JAKE and RUFE, as they were simple, short and distinctive. The basic system spread rapidly, and by late 1942, was adopted for use by both the USAAF and USN. In general, the code names were assigned using the following system, although several exceptions exist:". Hence Finlay shows the various aircraft as a related family because of this familiar way of reference. VG+.
A 3 x 14cm, 1pp "bookmark" which has the name of the Press on it and a red circle - referencing the Japanese origin of these airplanes.

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27 Mar

Posted at 19:39h in Joseph Beuys Postcards

Heidelberg: Edition Staeck, 1973
10.5 x 14.5cm, 2pp. Artist designed postcard issued as Series D, Nr 1 with the reproduced title text "Gib mir Honig" on the front which translates into “Give me honey”. This example is signed by Beuys in pencil on the front and rubber stamped with a FIU impression in blue, verso standard postcard design. VG+. Ref: Schellmann P 9.

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23 Mar

Posted at 18:46h in Joseph Beuys Postcards

NYC/Koln: Avalanche Magazine/Kolnischer Kunstverein, 1973
15 x 10.5cm, 4pp. A subscription card for the WIlloughby Sharpe and Liza Bear conceptual art magazine which displays the cover of the first number on the front which features a portrait of Joseph Beuys. Internally the first 8 magazines are show with short contents - all in German which is a little surprising given the magazine was in English and published in the USA but the card also notes an exhibition of the magazines in the Kolnischer Kunstverein. VG+.

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