07 Mar

Posted at 22:34h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Committee of Public Safety/Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1989) 2.8 x 21.6cm, 4pp. Artist's card with a text:

1989: BICENTERNAIRE DE LA REVOLUTION FRANCAISE
1990: LA LIBERTE DE CELEBRER 1789.

The year after most people define the beginning after the French Revolution the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen de 1789) was passed by the National Constituent Assembly thus giving citizens the right of free speech. Finlay's card celebrates that occasion which is usually ignored - putting it on an equal status as a highlight of world history. VG+. ...

05 Mar

Posted at 08:59h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1989
11.4 x 8.9cm, 4pp. Artist's card with a drawing of an abstracted moorland/estuary (very similar to the colourful images used in From 35 One Line Poem postcards published earlier by Finlay - and the text "Birds fly, Waterfoul Ply" - one having the air above the water, the other the water and the moorland but the latter being compared to boats "plying" their trade. Strictly speaking ply means to move regularly over an area or to work steadily - something both boats and land birds tend to do. VG+.

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03 Mar

Posted at 21:19h in Artist's Books

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1989
21 x 15cm, 30pp with card covers and printed dust jacket. Ten drawings by Laurie Clark based on the ten names of the first decade (week) in the revolutionary calendar. The English translation of the names of the days of the first decade of the month of Thermidor is beneath each French name and the associated drawing. Thermidor was the month when Robespierre and Saint-Just and their colleagues in the Committee of Public Safety were guillotined effectively ending the period of The Terror.
Finlay suggests in an explanatory note at the back fo the book that those ten days become a "kind of via crucis - a Stations of the Jacobin Cross". VG+.

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26 Feb

Posted at 14:59h in Prints + Posters

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1989
40 x 52cm, blue, red and black offset lithograph.A French flag drawn by Hincks has the texts "LIBERTY FOR SOME/EQUALITY FOR SOME/LIBERTY FOR SOME" respectively on each coloured section. The colours of the tricolour (invented as a compromise early during the French Revolution) were the red and blue: the colours of Paris allied to the white of the king. Later after the king was deposed and killed the flag was retained as the nation's flag and never retired even after the rise of Napoleon. The three texts of the work remind one that the revolutionary ideals did not really ever succeed - in fact, one might argue during the Terror, they had already been broken. VG.

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23 Feb

Posted at 20:50h in Proposals

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1989
21 x 14.8cm 8pp booklet designed and with drawings by Gary Hincks after Claude Lorrain. Finlay claims he saw a resemblance between a "coastal area in the south of England and Latium, the leafly coastal country of the later chapters of Virgil's Aneneid." The former presumably is owned by Thompson for whom the proposal was made. Each page has a water colour and a text by Finlay suggesting tree plaques, stone inscriptions and the installation of a "classical gate". Near fine condition.

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20 Feb

Posted at 22:59h in Artist's Books

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1989
13.5 x 13cm, 16pp plus printed brown card covers. Four drawings of proposed texts" for a paved area adjacent to a barn." each drawn by Stephen Raw. Included are the works:
Swallows
Little Matelots

Brown barns
Slower than old beige barges

VG+.

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28 Jan

Posted at 18:10h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Basel. Museum für Gegenwartskunst, 1989
23 x 16cm. 62pp plus card covers. Artist's book released on the occasion of an exhibition in Switzerland. Twenty-three enlargements of faces from a group photograph of children celebrating the Fete de Pourim in 1939 in a Parisian Jewish School - looking at the faces (which take on the characteristics of spectres because of the fuzziness from the enlargement) one cannot tell the fates of any particular child although one might suspect many to have died in the killing camps of the Nazis. There is an interview in German between Boltanski and Jorg Zutter at the back of the book. VG+.
Reference: Flay Catalogue Page 180.

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24 Jan

Posted at 20:29h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1989
12.8 x 20.3, 2pp card. The card has an appropriated drawing of a hunt in full chase - the hare has the name De Mann over it. Paul de Mann was an important literary critic who alongside Derrida popularised the concept of deconstruction. Finlay WAs clearly no fan. VG+.

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18 Jan

Posted at 23:34h in EPHEMERA

Paris: Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, 1989
10.5 x 21cm, 1pp typographic announcement card printed in red and black for a solo gallery show. Slight bumping top right else VG. ...

12 Jan

Posted at 11:19h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Koln: Edition Hansjörg Mayer, 1999
25 x 18 cm. 192pp plus card covers and French folds. A collective artist's book in hommage of the publisher Walther König with contributions by John Baldessari, Lothar Baumgarten, Bernd & Hilla Becher, ein loses vierseitiges Insert von Claus Böhmler, Christian Boltanski, George Brecht, Günter Brus, Hanne Darboven, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Peter Fischli & David Weiß, Isa Genzken, Hans Haacke, Candida Höfer, Carsten Höller, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, On Kawara, Sol LeWitt, Nam June Paik, ein lose einliegendes Walther König-Lesezeichen von Tobias Rehberger, Ulrich Rückriem, Tomas Schmit, Schuldt, Thomas Struth, Rosemarie Trockel, Franz Erhard Walther. The cover was designed by Lawrence Weiner. Slightly grubby cover but else VG.
Boltanski has contributed an original pagework a photograph of a young boy holding a book in front of a bookshop which purports to be Konig at age 10 - something which we cannot verify or a typical Boltanski strategy of using a model to pretend to be the book dealer.

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06 Jan

Posted at 18:39h in PHOTOGRAPHS

NYC: n.p., 1989
5 x 5cm, b/w transparency with a detail of the Boltanski installation "Reliquary" from 1989. Handwritten legend on the plastic - a slide provided by a gallery to press or clients. VG+.

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