Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1989
13 x 9.1cm, 4pp light brown outer folder. Internally a 13 x 9.1cm, 4pp sheet with a poem
Sundial
The motto is silent.
The shadow speaks.
The poem emphasises that the true importance on a sundial is the shadow of the gnomon and not the carvings added to it as decoration. The drawing on the cover was by Kathleen Lindsley.
This was one of a series of "poems in folders". VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1989
12 x 24cm, unprinted white envelope with sticker closure content of eight different adhesive stickers - sizes vary due to poor cutting post printing but all are c. 14 x 11.5cm, printed red and black. The stickers are all inspired by sayings or events of the French revolution around the year 1793. These were distributed as campaign materials for use by supporters of Finlay during his disputes with Strathclyde regional Council over the rating of Finlay's Garden Temple (which they claimed was an art gallery whereas Finlay stated it was a religious building". All unused, The sealed envelope has been opened using scissors and not too neatly. Not found in Murray.
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Denville: Artforum (Volume XXVII No. 8), April 1989
26.8 x 26.8cm, unpaginated (c. 300pp) plus wrappers. A single number of the long running art journal which has an original page work by Boltanski (joint with Annnette Messager) on pages 126 - 129. Two b/w images of children with stuffed toys (chosen by Boltanski) are reflected in two colour images by Messager which use later examples of the toys to create new photographs. This is a very unusual joint work by the lovers. VG+.
Reference: Flay Catalogue Page 182.
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Rivoli: Castello di Rivoli, 1989 10.5 x 15cm, closed printed envelope - black on gold paper. The announcement for a solo show by Byars - the envelope has inside three small plastic balls that can only be found by felling through the paper. An invite in the form of an object multiple. Slight wear to the outside of the envelope due to the plastic balls creating a stress on the paper else VG+ (and unopened). Scarce. ...
NYC: Mary Boone Gallery, 1989 21 x 15cm, 2pp typographic announcement card on mirrored gold card. Fine. ...
Torino: Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, 1989 30 x 21cm, 4pp. Museum hand out with 4 works in b/w and text in German. Torn top right else VG. ...
Rome: Cleto Polcina, 1989 26 x 24 cm folder which opens out to cross and gold inside cover. Inside, a red wrapper contains six loose folded sheets, varying from of four to eight pages, showing various works, a biography and a text 'Gold is only the beginning of art: the art of painting' by Achille Bonito Oliva. Fine....
Kleve: Stadtbucherei Kleve, 1989 21 x 15cm, 4pp announcement and programme for a number of lectures and exhibitions in the artist's home town three years after his death. One portrait of the artist on the front, inside a listing of the events. There are a couple of ink annotations in red and black ink but else VG....
Florence: Germain, 1989 21 x 14.5cm, 4pp. Self-cover. Artist's book - with a poem by Herbert - the book is the first time Byars created a parody of (or homage to) the format and typographic style of the Nouvelle Revue Francaise Editions Gallimard. This was later to incur the wrath of the publishing house. One of 1,000 issued. Fine. Now scarce....
Torino: Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, 1989 49.5 x 49.5cm black card with a 35.5 x 35.5cm, square text with a text by Byars. Small edition but not known. Fine. ...
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. 6 x 9.6cm, 1pp artist's card printed black on green card with a text discussing the difference between a poems subject ("about a thing") and the poem itself (which IS a thing). Semiology for beginners. VG+....
London: Coracle, 1989
12 x 17.5cm, 60pp plus pictorial boards. A festschrift for Jonathan Williams's 60th birthday. More than three dozen contributors include: Ian Hamilton Finlay, Gael Turnbull, Glen Baxter, R.B. Kitaj, Thomas A. Clark, Richard Caddel, Roy Fisher, Charles Tomlinson, Basil Bunting, Eric Mottram, and Sandra Fisher.
Finlay's contribution is a single page:
Aram Saroyan pays Homage
to Jonathan Williams
on his 60th Birthday.
undoubtedly
avant-
garde
Aram Saroyan was known for his minimalist works and Finlay here parodies the style in honour of his friend Williams. VG+.
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