paul robertson, Author at Unoriginal Sins

15 Dec A HARBOUR OF ROSES. CHRISTMAS 1993.

Posted at 13:22h in Artist's Books

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1993
11 x 7cm, 44pp plus green embossed boards. An artist's book with sixteen line drawings of various roses by Gary Hincks with the names of appropriate boats and their harbour numbers below. The last rose is XMAS ROSE and the name printed in red.
A long time interest in using boat names and numbers as poetry and sound elements as well as identifying certain boats with flowers is here again prominent.
This was published as a Christmas gift by Finlay in an edition of only 250 copies. VG+.

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09 Dec A HARBOUR OF BOAT BOOKS CARDS AND PRINTS BY IAN HAMILTON FINLAY. 1993.

Posted at 10:11h in Invitation Cards

London: workfortheeyetodo, 1993
16.5 x 12.5cm, 1pp. Announcement card for an exhibition of books and other published material at Simon Cutt's gallery. Typographic design. VG+.

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08 Dec CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI. 1993.

Posted at 09:02h in EPHEMERA

Munchen: Gunter Fruhtrunk Preis, 1993 9 x 21cm, 2pp typographic design announcement card for Boltanski's award of the Gunter Fruhtrunk Prize for 1993. VG+....

05 Dec GYMNASIUM CHASES. 1993.

Posted at 17:51h in EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

Frankfurt: Städtische Galerie im Stadelschen Kunstinstitut, 1993
28 x 23cm, 6pp exhibition catalogue for an exhibition of the 23 enlarged faces of the school students found in an original source school photograph of the graduating class of 1931 from a Viennese high school for Jewish students. Each in larger detail takes on a ghostly appearance - and one is left wondering of the fate of these lost souls. Anonymous essay in German and four b/w images of faces and a reproduced image of the original school photograph. VG+.

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29 Nov DIESE KINDER SUCHEN IHRE ELTERN. 1993. BOOKMARK.

Posted at 20:50h in OBJECT MULTIPLES

Koln: Buchnadlung Konig, 1993
21 x 4.5cm, 2pp bookmark which also reproduces on the front 3 post-war adverts for "lost" children who is seeking family members. Boltanski requests that anyone who recognises him or her self should please get in touch. This is to promote the related artist's book of the same title. VG+

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28 Nov DIESE KINDER SUCHEN IHRE ELTERN. 1993

Posted at 20:53h in EPHEMERA

Koln: Museum Ludwig, 1993
21 x 15cm, 2pp typographic design announcement leaflet explaining the exhibition where Boltanski notes he is about the same age as the children who were "lost" by their parents during the war and he asks if anyone in the photographs could contact him . VG+

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28 Nov DIESE KINDER SUCHEN IHRE ELTERN. 1993

Posted at 20:53h in EPHEMERA

Koln: Museum Ludwig, 1993
21 x 15cm, 2pp announcement leaflet which also reproduces on the front a post-war advert for a "lost" child who is seeking family members. Boltanski requests that anyone who recognises him or her self should please get in touch. This is one of a number of such leaflets released at the time of the exhibition and the related artist's book of the same title. VG+

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28 Nov DIESE KINDER SUCHEN IHRE ELTERN. 1993

Posted at 20:51h in EPHEMERA

28 Nov DIESE KINDER SUCHEN IHRE ELTERN. 1993

Posted at 20:50h in EPHEMERA

28 Nov DIESE KINDER SUCHEN IHRE ELTERN. 1993

Posted at 20:48h in EPHEMERA

28 Nov DIESE KINDER SUCHEN IHRE ELTERN. 1993.

Posted at 20:46h in EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

Köln: Museums Ludwig, 1993>BR> 30 x 21cm, 4pp gallery handout with cover reproduction of one of the post-war advert for the families of orphaned children and inside (along with a text in German by Gerard A. Goodrow) a reproduction of the original poster from the 1940s that Boltanski used to create his works. Three b/w images of the museum.

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28 Nov DIESE KINDER SUCHEN IHRE ELTERN. 1993.

Posted at 20:00h in POSTERS

Koln: Museum Ludwig, 1994
84.3 x 59.5cm, b/w lithographic offset exhibition poster with an appropriated image of a post-war advertisement for a boy who had been separated from this family and appealing for anyone to adopt him. VG+.

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