Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1993
14.5 x 11.5cm, 2pp card with a photograph by Pia Simig of a photocopying machine in b/w. Below the image Finlay has added "COPYING_MACHINE-gun" - the sound of an old fashioned copier when set to repeat is somewhat similar to that of a machine gun shooting bullets quickly and repetitively. VG+.
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Glasgow: Tramway, 1993
21 x 15cm, 4pp announcement and invitation card with the image of a lost glove on the front and on the back a blurred photographic portrait of a unknown man (presumably one of the workers made redundant from Boltanski's research for this exhibition and installation. VG+
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Koln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter Konig, 1993
21 x 15cm,72pp plus wrappers. First edition of a catalogue raisonne of works including paintings, sculptures and documents. 119 items described and illustrated in b/w. Texts in German and French. VG+.
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Antwerpen: ASPC, 1993
1.8cm, golden paper circle with the text BYARSISDEAD in black ink in a very small typeface in the centre. Unlimited edition but now very scarce. VG+.
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Ostfildern: Edition Cantz, 1991
21 x 15cm, 3pp announcement leaflet for the release of the limited edition print which is reproduced on the front. VG+ although one punched hole top left as issued.
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Bern: Edition Galerie Rigassi, 1993 21 x 30cm, opens out to 84 x 60cm, printed gold on black offset - exhibition catalogue listing the texts from a number of large handwritten letters by Byars. VG+. ...
Bern: Edition Galerie Rigassi, 1993 30 x 21cm, 1pp. Mostly typographic announcement card for an exhibition of large handwritten letters by Byars. VG+. ...
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1993
17.4 x 9.9cm, 2pp card with a vertical text - "LARK with your tiny scissors you shred a huge bale of BLUE" - a concrete poem which is also reflected in the predominantly light blue colour of the card. VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1993
17.4 x 9.9cm, 2pp card with a vertical text - "CLOUDS your incredible capitals crown the tall grey columns of AIN" - a concrete poem which is also reflected in the predominantly grey colour of the card. VG+.
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n.p.: n.p., n.d. (1993)
60 x 82cm, light blue on white silkscreen. The image of a sundial is joined with text in Greek and English - Saint-Just's most famous dictum "too many laws, too few examples". Like many quotations the meaning out of context can be changed - Saint-Just was referring to deaths in the terror, but a modern take might be that we need better people or better behaviour (Virtue perhaps)? A sundial is a good example - once placed and checked for accuracy, its behaviour is true and unvaried. it is a good example.
One of 300 signed and numbered examples (the signature is in pencil, the numbering in ink.
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A undistributed proof from the unreleased publication of the same name (planned by Edition Cantz). 33 x 33 cm, 2pp silk-screen print (chamois/white) on white double sided astrolux (high gloss) 290 micron card stock. The text is intense and in German and English recto/verso:"THE SUN THE MOON THE STARS...
Milan: Galleria del Credito Valtellinese, 1993 10.5 x 21cm, 4pp announcement card with one b/w image of the artist during the title performance in Milan in 1981. Posthumous card. VG+....