24 Dec

Posted at 10:01h in Prints + Posters

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1976
25 x 55cm offset lithograph in green and black on off white paper. A drawing by John Borg Manduca is printed in green and has elements of camouflage - hence Finlay's question: "Are Aircraft Carriers Urban or Rural?" makes sense as the huge vessel looks like greenery in the countryside. elsewhere Finlay has taken up this theme with a different print called "Topiary Aircraft Carrier".Murray has this as 5.56. VG+ condition.

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15 Dec

Posted at 14:02h in Artist's Books

Dunsyre, : Wild Hawthorn Press, 1976 12 x 11cm,28pp plus card wrappers and printed blue dust jacket. Artist's book displaying two b/w photogrpahs of sculptural works in stone (both war planes) by John Andrews and nine poems by Finlay including:

UNTITLED
after Aram Saroyan

LOTS
lots

Aram Saroyan is an American minimalist poet. The word LOTS plays in opposition to the form. Finlay's poem hints at the complexity found in Saroyan's poems despite their (relative) lack of words or even letters.
This is one of 350 signed and numbered copies. VG+.

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27 Nov

Posted at 09:59h in Joseph Beuys Postcards

Bologna: Studio Cavalieri - Arte Contemporanea, 1976 19.6 x 15.5cm, 2pp announcement card for the opening of the exhibition organised in collaboration with Lucrezia De Domizio. Front of the card utilises a b/w image of Beuys in performance in 1974 by Bubby Durini that is found on a number of other earlier cards also published in Italy. VG+ example....

21 Nov

Posted at 20:55h in Joseph Beuys Postcards

Krefeld: Museum Haus Lange Krefeld, 1976, 1982
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp announcement card for the new works in the collection which is is notes included 10 new works by Beuys which were prominently featured in the show. Krefeld is, of course, the city in which the artist was born and brought up. One drawing by the artist is reproduced on the front of the card, verso museum details. This is a mailed card with a typed address and a postal stamp but still is VG+.

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18 Nov

Posted at 18:05h in Artist's Books

Toronto: Couch House Press, 1976
19.6 x 20.2cm , 60pp plus blue card covers. An A-Z of pictures of Finlay's model boats, airplanes, weapons and kites by Paterson along with an alphabet - B is "Battle fleets are like families" shows a number of warships placed in size order like a bad family portrait. Not all of the texts are poetic - some simply describe the toys.
One of 1,000 copies printed this example is VG+.

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15 Nov

Posted at 17:48h in Artist's Postcards

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1976
15 x 10cm, 1pp. A line drawing by Laurie Clark of a ship steering towards the viewer with its name on the prow: it can be seen to be a model because of the large faucet to be found in the background.
Finlay was fond of making and playing with toy boats from early in his career. VG+.

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15 Oct

Posted at 17:52h in Artist's Postcards

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1976
11.3 x 16.6cm, 1pp. A photograph by Carl Heideken shows an actual chocolate soldier marching while carrying a heavy gun. Finlay equates this to the German Panzergrenadier who were the basic troops of the Panzergrenadiertruppe, their uniforms were often brown, famously the enlisted men were given chocolate bars (Scho-Ka-Kola) as part of their "Front Fighting Packages" when supplies arrived.

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27 Sep

Posted at 15:57h in Prints + Posters

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1986
29.6 × 50.4cm, blue-grey on white silkscreen with a reproduced painting by John Borg Manduca of an aircraft carrier seen from a vantage point of the sea level which makes its size seem vast. There is also enclosing a separate sheet of tracing paper bearing the colophon information and Finlay's handwritten signature in ink.
The full quotation: ‘At the field's edge, on the vertiginous cliff-top, stood a solitary hut’ and clearly describes the greatness of such a vessel. We are not clear on the origin of the quote - please do let us know if you can identify it.
One of 300 signed and numbered copies. VG.

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15 Sep

Posted at 18:08h in Artist's Postcards

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1976.
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp. A photograph by Carl Heideken of a Oerlikon cannon below which the word LYRE has been added by Finlay. On the reverse of the card there is a Hereclitian quotation from Edward Hussey's book on the PreSocratics: "Applied to a lyre, harmone might refer to the structure of the unstrung lyre, or to that of the strung lyre whether tuned or not, or to that of the lyre tuned in a particular mode."
Visually an Oerlikon cannon's ammunition looks somewhat like the strings of a harp (lyre) so Finlay sees a visual correspondence between the gun and the musical instrument (both also make noise) and the classical quote notes the synthesis of the visual beauty of the weapon/instrument with its function. VG+.

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06 Sep

Posted at 21:05h in Joseph Beuys Postcards

Dusseldorf: Galerie Schmela, 1976
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp announcement card with b/w image of a "Fond" work (sheets of metal that theoretically can cause the flow of electrons) ie a battery on the front, and verso gallery details. An unmailed example which has been signed in blue felt tipped pen on the front by the artist - VG+.

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