paul robertson, Author at Unoriginal Sins

02 Aug SANS-SOUCI. 1991. ONE OF 30 DELUXE SIGNED & NUMBERED COPIES WITH LAID IN ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH.

Posted at 10:25h in DELUXE ARTIST’S BOOKS

Frankfurt am Main/Koln: Portikus/Walther König, Köln, 1991. 22 x 29cm, 16pp, plus printed typographic boards. Artist's book with 56 b/w illustrations of German family life just before or at the beginning of the second world war with many of the subjects in military uniform. Each page has a tissue guard which has a patter of a cobweb on it. The book looks like a family album and the subjects are happy in their life - one cannot tell anything about their personal guilt or actions or morality during the war from the photographs.
This is one of only 30 copies that has an additional original 18.7 x 22.4cm, b/w photograph on the first sheet in photo-corners of a wedding with two men in uniform with the bridge and her friend. The extra page is signed and numbed by Boltanski on the inside cover of the book. VG+. Very scarce.

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02 Aug EVENING WILL COME THEY WILL SEW THE BLUE SAIL. 1991.

Posted at 09:57h in Exhibition Catalogues

Edinburgh: Fruit Market Gallery, 1991
30 x 10.6cm, 58pp. Exhibition catalogue for the retrospective of Finlay during the 11991 Edinburgh festival. Long essay by Edwin Morgan which also has a Spanish translation. Thirteen works reproduced in colour. VG+.

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26 Jul THE POOR FISHERMAN. 1991.

Posted at 16:23h in Exhibition & Other Posters

Edinburgh: Talbot Rice Gallery, n.d. (1991)
69 x 41cm, full colour offset lithographic exhibition poster with a recreation of the painting "The Poor Fisherman" by Puvis De Chavannes - however the mast of the boat has had a revolutionary cockade been added to it. - hence adding a political edge to the image more than the original solely religious intent. The exhibition at the Talbot Rice Gallery that examined the work in some detail and responses to the work.

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26 Jul THE POOR FISHERMAN. 1991.

Posted at 10:14h in Exhibition Catalogues

Edinburgh: Talbot Rice Gallery, 1991
21 x 19cm, 38pp plus wrappers. Illustrated exhibition catalogue for a show proposed by Finlay, themed around the famous painting by Puvis of the Poor Fisherman. Finlay had various new works created on the theme although the show also had other related works by other artists , the catalogue text is by Duncan MacMillan. VG+.

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14 Jul LES SUISSES MORTS.

Posted at 10:55h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Frankfurt am Main: Museum fur Modern Kunst, 1991
24 x 19cm, 100pp. card covers. Exhibition catalogue which really should be regarded as an artist's book due to 621 small b/w images of the aactual "Swiss dead" which follows a short essay in German and English by Gunter Metken. The images were found and sampled from over 3,000 obituaries from the regional newspaper "Le Nouveliste du Valais" and reprinted without comment. VG+.

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12 Jul SIX MILESTONES. 1991.

Posted at 20:45h in Proposals

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1991
26 x 18cm, 20pp plus card wrappers and printed dust jacket. A proposal for Floriade, The Hague, Holland where 6 different inscribed milestones were to be situated. The first reminds one of a gravestone and its text a reminder of death as well as of a journey:

MAN
A passerby

The drawings were by Michael Harvey who also drew the proposed plan for the site where the milestones would be placed between two trees in a row.

ix Milestones A Proposal for £65.00 1991 with Michael Harvey 20 pp booklet with dustjacket .0 cm...

11 Jul SCUD. 1991.

Posted at 14:24h in Artist's Books

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1991) 9.2 x 7.6cm, 8pp plus card covers. Artist's book which has two definitions inside of the word Scud:
firstly, to sweep along easily and swiftly,: to drive before the wind: to traverse swiftly

and

to spank.

Finlay seems to have the idea of a boat moving quickly but also being forced along by its crew. VG+. ...

07 Jul JOSEPH BARA 1779 – 1793 AGRICOL VIALA 1780 – 1793. 1991.

Posted at 22:42h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1991) 11.6 x 14.6cm, 2pp. Artist's card which notes the names and dates of the two child martyrs of the French Revolution. The border around the names shows two drawings by Laurie Clark of a war drum and a child's toy horse on wheels - to remind the viewer how young the boys were when they died. VG+. ...

02 Jul DETACHED SENTENCES ON FRIENDSHIP. 1991.

Posted at 21:25h in Artist's Books

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1991 10.0 x 6.8cm, 14pp plus wrappers and printed dust jacket. Artist's book with seven illustrations by Kathleen Lindsley and short proverb-like texts by Finlay, for example, "The wind roaring in the night is both stranger and friend." VG+ - although staples are a bit rusty. ...

27 Jun TRIBUTE TO THE NEW GENERATION. 1991.

Posted at 21:42h in James Lee Byars

Dusseldorf/Kassel/Venice: ASPC, 1991
1.8cm, embossed golden circle with a spiral raised on the thing card. Unlimited edition but now very scarce. VG+.

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19 Jun IAN HAMILTON FINLAY. POET OF THE WOODLAND. 1991.

Posted at 16:19h in Exhibition Catalogues

Mannheim: Galerie Stadtpark, 1991
23 x 23cm, 12pp plus card covers and printed dust jacket. Exhibition catalogue for an exhibition of 27 photographs of Little Sparta by Martin Greenhalgh. VG+.

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09 Jun CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI. 1991. SIGNED BY BOLTANSKI.

Posted at 21:06h in EPHEMERA

Hamburg: Hamburger Kunstehalle, 1991
21 x 7cm, 8pp (single folded sheet printed black on yellow) typographic announcement card for a solo exhibition - 6 small b/w images of installations and the artist. Signed in ink by Boltanski on the first page. VG+.

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