paul robertson, Author at Unoriginal Sins

06 Jun A PROPOSAL FOR THE GARDEN OF ARTHUR & CAROL GOLDBERG. 1994.

Posted at 11:12h in Artist's Books

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1994
7 x 14cm, 4pp (gatefold) the works is a text:

SOCIETY IS THE CURE FOR PRIDE, AND SOLITUDE FOR VANITY

which is a quotation by H. de Schelles (Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles who was a member of the Committee for Public Safety and an active Dantonist). Finlay proposes the work for a bench to sit between a grove of pine trees and a lake. The bench is meant to be a secluded place for active thought. VG+. ...

29 May OLSEN’S FISHERMAN’S NAUTICAL ALPHABET. 1994.

Posted at 20:18h in Prints + Posters

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1994
29.6 x 21cm, blue on white offset lithograph with a reworking of the universal A - Z alphabet - but the letters are all (except Q) replaced by boat port registration letter codes. VG+.

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20 May CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI. 1994.

Posted at 19:47h in POSTERS

Barcelona:Fundacio Espai Poblemou, 1994
56 x76.5cm, full colour lithographic offset exhibition poster with an image of a Boltanski Dispersion installation where piles of second hand clothes are left in the building and visitors are welcome to take them away. VG+.

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12 May NOTICIES DE DIA. 1994.

Posted at 09:28h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Barcelona: Fundació Espai Poblenou, 1994
21 x 15cm, 90pp plus typographic wrappers. An artist's book containing a list of calls made to the Barcelona police from 7 to 13 April 1994 organised by time and date and including the reason for the call (including deaths to someone reporting that snow is falling in a district). A number of the "daily reports" are translated into English at the back of the book. VG+.

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06 May STREIFLICHTER. 1994.

Posted at 13:04h in Exhibition Catalogues

NYC: Nolan/Eckman Gallery, 1994
10.7 x 13.5cm, 28pp plus card covers, a red dust jacket and a tipped on title label. This book is subtitled "six Inscribed Fragments Concerning the French Revolution 1789 -- 1805. Six b/w photographs (by Antonia Reeve) of stone reliefs by Finlay are tipped on opposite a commentary by Siegfried Blasche and different quotations from Michelet . The commentaries can be seen as an adjunct to the works as they are not explained. Still an interesting book that is arguably an artists book as well as exhibition catalogue. On consideration we regard it as one of the latter.

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02 May UNTITLED. 1994. BYARS PARODY?

Posted at 09:18h in James Lee Byars

Amsterdam: Art Unlimited, 1994 10.5 x 15cm, 2pp artist postcard - here a field of yellow chicks on the front in colour which according to the card is a work "Untitled" by Byars however this seems unlikely and is probably a parody/joke. Included here as a curiosity - any information on this card would be gratefully received. VG+....

01 May THE SOUTH BANK SHOW CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI. 1994.

Posted at 16:39h in EPHEMERA

London: London Weekend TV, 1994
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp. Promotional card for the TV show presented by Melvyn Bragg looking at the work of Boltanski - on the front is a reproduction of Le Blaguer - a coloured photowork with an image of the performing artist in his suit. VG. Scarce.

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01 May SAINT SEBASTIAN. 1994. ADDRESSED BY FINLAY TO JANET BOULTON.

Posted at 15:07h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1994
15.5 x 9.1cm, 2pp card with a drawing by Gary Hincks of Saint Sebastian "martyred by liberals making "points".
One of Finlay's many pointed (like arrows) small publications aimed at his enemies both real and imagined. This example is hand addressed by Finlay to his friend and collaborator Janet Boulton. VG+.

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23 Apr TOO MANY LAWS TOO FEW EXAMPLES. 1994.

Posted at 11:58h in Object + Paper Multiples

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1994
5cm, dia. printed plastic with metal safety pin clasp. A lapel badge with the title text on it in white on red (the colour of blood). Issued in the year of the European elections the slogan alludes to Saint-Just's "Fewer laws, more examples" but here the over emphasis on "too many" rather and "fewer" refelcts Finlay's own experiences with Scottish local governmental restrictions. Limitation not known. VG+>

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22 Apr PORTRAIT OF IAN HAMILTON FINLAY IN LITTLE SPARTA. 1994.

Posted at 16:37h in Photographs

Essen: Werner J. Hannappel, 1994
17.8 x 24cm, b/w high gloss photograph of Finlay sitting in his conservatory. Taken for an exhibition in Hamburg - Works: Pure and Political, 1995. Probably a print sent to newspapers for use in publicity. Several labels on back for photographer and exhibition venue.

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22 Apr IMPENDING NAVIGATION BRIGHT. A CATCH OF POEMS ABOUT THE SHIPPING FORECAST. 1994. ONE OF 100 NUMBERED COPIES.

Posted at 09:07h in Page Works & Contributions

Edinburgh: Morning Star Press, 1994 21 x 15cm, gatefold outer orange folder content of a 18 x 12cm, 10pp (single folded sheet) with page contributions by Finlay, Gael Turnbull, Tessa Ransford, George MacKay Brown, Ian Stephen, Edwin Morgan, Peter Larkin, Richard Price, Peter Dent and a cover illustrated by Margot Sandeman with text by Bridget Penney. The shipping forecast is a nightly and morning broadcast on the BBC which tells the weather for shipping in the various seas around Great Britain but it has iconic status as many peopel who are not fishermen listen to it because the names of the various weather stations are somewhat poetic in themselves. Finaly here contributes a short work:<BR?
LATE NIGHT SHIPPING FORECAST

A shoal
of names
in nets
of rain

Where the weather station names are compared to a fishing catch held together by a net of rain.
The Morning Star Press was the publishing house of Alex Finlay son of Ian. One of 100 hand numbereed copies. Scarce. VG+. ...

10 Apr WILD ROSES/ROVE. 1994.

Posted at 10:39h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1994) 13.0 x 6.5cm, 4pp artist's card with a poem on the front:

wild roses

roses
roses

roses
rove

roses
reefed

Finlay explains that Rove here is a nautical term meaning led through and fastened (as in the case of a rope) and Reefed means to be shortened, taken in. The flowers are bunched and made into a bouquet in this visual poem. VG+. ...