29 Aug BOLTANKSI. 1987.
Dusseldorf: Kunstverein fur die Rheinlande und Westfalen, 1987
84 x 59.5cm, full colour lithographic offset exhibition poster with an image of a Boltanski installation Lecons de Tenebres Les Ombres, Paris 1986. VG+.
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29 Aug CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI INSERT FOR LES LYCEES CHASES. 1987.
Dusseldorf: Kunstverein fur die Rheinlande und Westfalen, 1987
30 x 21cm, 8pp (self cover). The printed insert for Le Lycee Chases exhibition catalogue that was only added for the exhibition in Dusseldorf that the show was taken too after Saint-Ettienne. Text in German with b/w images. VG+.
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29 Aug LES LYCEES CHASES. 1987. WITH PRINTED INSERT.
Dusseldorf: Kunstverein fur die Rheinlande und Westfalen, 1987 30 x 21cm, 62pp plus card covers and printed typographic dustjacket. Exhibition catalogue and artist's book which shows the photograph "Classe Terminale du Lycee Chases en 1931 Castelgasse Vienne" on the title page followed by enlargements of each of the faces of the children (not the teacher) - each on a page printed on semi-opaque paper to give a ghostly feel to the faces which are also out of focus due to the enlargement which doubles the affect. The final page of the book is an installation view showing the photographs displayed on the walls each with a lamp light above it. This is one of two artist books based on the same touring show - here in Germany and also in Saint-Ettienne. JOINT: Dusseldorf: Kunstverein fur die Rheinlande und Westfalen, 1987 The printed 4pp insert with a further text in German and many b/w images of Boltanski's other work. VG+. ...
29 Aug LE LYCESS CHASES. 1987.
Dusseldorf: Stadtische Kunsthalle, 1987 21 x 10cm, 6pp announcement card - internally one work (Les Reserves, 1987) in colour and museum text. VG+....
29 Aug THE BLACK PAPER ON ART. 1982. WITH ORIGINAL DRAWING BY BYARS.
Munster: Westfalischer Kunstverein, 1987 24cm dia, printed gold on black tissue with the title text in small lettering. Object multiple issued during the exhibition James Lee Byars at Westfälischen Kunstverein, Munster from 18 July - 26 September 1982. but this example is unique given that Byars has drawn a circle with a star in black ink below the golden text (hard to see but the photograph allows you look closely). One ink drop on the right of the paper has caused minor discolouration else VG. JOINT: A handwritten letter from the curator at Westfalischer Kunstverein to Herr Meir offering the work as a gift. Dated 29 August 1987....
26 Aug BROUNT. 1987
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1987
16.8 x 11.5cm, 1pp. Artist's card with a photograph of Greyfriars Bobby: the famous Edinburgh dog which has a statue commemorating its loyalty to its master near Greyfriars Kirk churchyard seemingly living on the grave he was buried in.
Brount was the name of Robespierre's faithful dog which he apparently loved and was left behind when he was guillotined. The parallel appealed to Finlay it seems. VG+.
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25 Aug SAINT-JUST VIGILANTES CELEBRATE A DIRECT HIT…. 1987.
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1987
12.5 x 11.5cm, 2pp card. An appropriated photograph of German soldiers celebrating a direct hit from their artillery battery on a house is sub-captioned by Finlay "Saint-Just Vigilantes celebrate a direct hit on elements of the Headley and Meulenkamp Division of the National Trust". Finlay keeping up his attacks on the duo who offended him by mis-representing Little Sparta as a "Folly" in a book. Meulenkamp additionally used the controversy with Catherine Millet accusing Finlay of pro-Nazi sympathies to attack him again in a Dutch article. It is fair to assume that Finlay chose an image of German soldiers here as a provocation rather than to show any pro-fascist feelings. VG+
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23 Aug MR. GREENE AND THE WHITE BRIGANDS. 1987.
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1987
156.5 x 11.7cm, 2pp card. Two quotations - the first from Cobban's History of Modern France which explains how the Great Fear during the French revolution was based on false reporting and a quote from an unidentified London newspaper that Jonathan Cape (who Finlay was at war with over the Follies book) were promoting rumours that were promoted by the Saint-Just Vigilantes group "a romantic Scottish nationalist group". Clearly the S-J Vigilantes were not per se nationalist (some may have been, others certainly were not) and Finlay here is pointing to the way Jonathan Cape tried to befuddle the argument by faking up stories. VG+
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19 Aug 35MM COLOUR SLIDE. 1987. WOOD WIND SONG.
N.p.: n.p., 1987
A standard COLOUR photographic 35mm slide with an image of a Finlay sculptural intervention in the landscape - here the work "WOOD WIND SONG" (for a discussion of this work see separate listing on cards). The work is to be found in Little Sparta, Scotland. The slide was prepared for a book "Art in America" (which is strange given the geographical location of the work pictured). VG+.
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19 Aug 35MM COLOUR SLIDE. 1987. SEE POUSSIN, HEAR LORRAINE.
N.p.: n.p., 1987
A standard b/w photographic 35mm slide with an image of a Finlay sculptural intervention in the landscape - here the work "See Poussin, hear Lorraine" (for a discussion of this work see separate listing on cards). The work is to be found in Little Sparta, Scotland. The slide was prepared for a book "Art in America" (which is strange given the geographical location of the work pictured). VG+.
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16 Aug RESERVES. 1987.
NYC: Marian Goodman Gallery, n.d. (1987)
21 x 10cm, 4pp. Announcement brochure for a solo show with a large scale installation of second hand clothing folded and stacked and placed under spotlights. The work hints at the removal and theft of the Jewish cloths of the murdered victims of the Nazis but as usual for the artist the anonymity is important - the lack of information allows projection of ideas onto the work. There is a colour image of the installation on the inside of the leaflet. VG+.
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08 Aug A PROPOSAL FOR THE FURKA PASS 1987. 1987.
N.P. (Switzerland): Furkaart, 1987 10.5 x 15cm, 2pp postcard issued with a badly photoshopped photograph by Marco Schlbig of Finlay's proposal for the Furka Pass (a "signature" of F. Hodler etched into a found stone - thus "signing" the landscape). VG+. Scarce....