Gent: Stad Gent, 1980 27.5 x 21cm, 204pp plus card covers. The cover has the title tipped on as a triangular printed label. The exhibition catalogue for a major look back at the artistic endeavours of the year 1968 which includes sections on Art & Languages, Beuys, Broodthaers, Brouwn, Buren, Victor Burgin, Cragg, the Red Crayola, Darboven, Dibbets, Dimitrijevic, Fabro, Feldmann, Flanagan, Gilbert & George, Hans Haacke, Imi Knoebel, Yannis Kounellis, Long, Merz, Panamarenko, Paolini, Poirier, Schum van Elk, Vilmouth and Zorio as well as Boltanski. Boltanski's section includes 4 images of installations in b/w.  Texts in German by Jan Hoet, Gemano Celant, Johannes Cladders, KJ Geirlandt, Sandy Nairne, Piet Vandaalen, Koenraad De Wolf, Tony Godfrey, Alexandra Beaton, F. Menna, and Albert Kuiper. Slight marks to the card covers else VG+.  ...

Schepenen: Museum van Hedendaagse, 1968 11.2 x 15.5cm, 2pp announcement card for a major group show which displayed works by most of the prominent artists of 1968 - Art & Language, Christian Boltanski, Marcel brooodthaers, Stanley Brouwn, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Tony Cragg, The Red Crayola, Hanne Darboven, Jan Dibbets, Hans Peter Feldman, Gilbert & George, Hans Haacke, Yannis Kounellis, Richard Long, Mario Merz, Panamarenko, Giulio Paolini, Gerry Schum and others and of course, Joseph Beuys. This card has been signed by Beuys in pencil on the front and stamped with the Free International University rubber stamp in blue. Verso museum details. VG+. ...

Geneve: Ecart, 1980 10.5 x 14.5cm, 2pp announcement card for John Armleder's press. Notes two exhibitions (in Armleder's facsimile hand) on one side and a reproduced cut up collage design on the other for events by Olivier Mosset, George Maciunas and Peter Moore at an art fair. One central fold. This was a home made announcement card and the image on the back is not well positioned not is the guillotining of the card. Scarce.....

6 x 21cm, original vintage xerox which on one side has "THE MINIMUM NUMBER OF SHARES AS QUOTED ONN THE FORM DOES NOT APPLY IF YOU ARE ALREADY AN EXISTING SHAREHOLDER" and on the other side an original (and as far as we know an unpublished piece of doggeral by Finlay:
"What is this life
if full of care
a po-faced look
is all we wear." The poemis of course a parody of W. H. Davies's poem Leisure which has the line "What is this life if, full of care,: We have no time to stand and stare.". We do not know the date of this item. Folded. Unique.

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Koln: Edition Staeck, 1980 Three boxes (each 18.5 x 13.5 x 1.4cm) content of 12 different picture postcards in each (36 in total) - a complete set of the cards issued by the publisher here aside from the more expensive object multiple where an “economic value” object was issued in a further card box. All fine in like boxes - very scarce in this format outside of the multiple....

Gent: Edition Staeck, n.d. (1980) 17.1 x 12.3cm, 2pp artist's postcard with a colour image of fat placed in a corner by Beuys. One of a number of similar postcards released as part of the Das Wirtschaftswert-Prinzip edition where the cards were joined with a signed "economic value" item (common domestic products without branding found by Beuys in the former GGD) in a box. This example is boldly signed by Beuys on the front in red felt tipped pen and verso publisher's details. Someone in the past has unwisely tried to frame this card and there is a paper residue all around the back of the card from a gluing to a backing card, the only text on the otherwise blank back is slightly obscured by this. ...

47 x 47cm, pencil on red silk paper which is in the shape of a triangle. The text reads: "1 - 1 - 15/YES JAN YES ON MAY FOR THE EXHIBITION OF JAMES LEE BYARS WE MUST HURRY HERE'S .." It is not clear if part of this letter is missing. What is missing is the top of the letter because when we opened the framing after an auction house purchase at Bernaerts it was clear that damp had caused part of the paper to stick to the glass and tear off. Get good condition reports before bidding. ...

Gent: Edition Staeck, n.d. (1981) 17.1 x 12.3cm, 2pp artist's postcard with a colour image of fat placed in a corner by Beuys. One of a number of similar postcards released as part of the Das Wirtschaftswert-Prinzip edition where the cards were joined with a signed "economic value" item (common domestic products without branding found by Beuys in the former GGD) in a box. This example is boldly signed by Beuys on the front in black felt tipped pen and verso publisher's details. Someone in the past has unwisely tried to frame this card and there is a paper residue all around the back of the card from a gluing to a backing card, the only text on the otherwise blank back is slightly obscured by this. ...

Paris: Galerie Nancy Gillespie - Elisabeth de Laage, 1980 10 × 15cm, 1pp typographic announcement card for a gallery show. VG+ condition although a mailed example with tipped on address label verso.. ...

Heidelberg: Edition Staeck, 1980
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp artist's postcard from the Originalgrafik - series D editions. The card lists a huge number of artistic supporters for the forthcoming elections called to support the SPD byt Beuys has overprinted the text "KITSCHPOSTKARTE" de facto criticising them as "kitsch" - Beuys of course being a founder member of the rival Gruenen Partie . This card is signed by Beuys at the top and a dedication also in his hand at the side - both in blue ink. VG+.Schellmann nr P 46.

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