paul robertson, Author at Unoriginal Sins

22 Apr SUBLIME. 1991.

Posted at 22:48h in Poems in folders

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1991
11 x 15.5cm, 4pp blue outer folder. Internally a 11 x 15.5cm, 4pp sheet with a poem:

SUBLIME

Where the eagles circle in
darkness, the sons of the
Alps cross from precipice
to precipice, fearlessly,
on the flimsiest rope
bridges.

In the Place de la Revolution
the man-made mountain
torrent clatters
and clatters.

The first half of the poem is from Hegel, the second Finlay refers to the increasing pile of heads (which did not really happen but is a popular historical meme) caused by the clattering guillotine.
This is one of a series of works which the Wild Hawthorn Press denoted as "Poems in folders". VG+.

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21 Apr IAN HAMILTON FINLAY. IDEOLOGISCHE AUSSERUNGEN. 1991. SIGNED BY FINLAY.

Posted at 16:31h in Exhibition & Other Posters

Frankfurt: Talbot Rice Gallery, 1991
89 x 60cm, B/W offset lithographic exhibition poster with a reproduction of TWO LANDSCAPES OF THE SUBLIME (See separate listing under prints) This exhibition poster is unusually signed in pencil by Finlay under the image (originally by Gary Hincks). VG.

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21 Apr PICTURESQUE. 1991.

Posted at 08:35h in Artist's Books

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1991
8.2 x 10cm, 8pp with printed blue card covers. Picturesque was a style of painting which stressed the pretty and the kitsch and here Finlay cites in sarcastic terms the view that:
"It is hardly necessary to remark how the view from the house would be enlivened by the smoke of a cottage - " which is a direct quote from Humphry Repton the 18th century gardener and proponent of the style.
Finlay conjoins on the page opposite "- or a Picasso portrait by the inclusion of a recognisable pipe." which forces a modernity onto Repton's rather passe vision. VG+

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19 Apr IAN HAMILTON FINLAY. BIOBIBLIOGRAPHY. 1991.

Posted at 08:49h in Exhibition Catalogues

Frankfurt: Frankfurt Kunstverein, 1991
30 x 21cm, 44pp plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue in the form of a catalogue raisonne of all the the publications of the Wild Hawthorn Press including prints, cards and books etc. The publication seems be based entirely on the Graeme Murray raisonne of the previous year and has the same mistakes in it although it was compiled by Pia SImlig. VG+....

18 Apr IAN HAMILTON FINLAY. 1991.

Posted at 15:26h in Exhibition Catalogues

Frankfurt: Frankfurter Kunstverein, 1991
30.5 x 23cm, 44p plus pictorial card covers. Exhibition catalogue for a solo show with most works reproduced in colour. Essay by R. C Kenedy. VG+.

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14 Apr MUSEUM UND KIRCHE RELIGIOSE ASPEKTE MODERNER KUNST. 1991.

Posted at 18:45h in Joseph Beuys Postcards

Duisburg: Wilhelm-Lemhbruck-Museum, 1991 14.8 x 10.5cm, 4pp invitation card for a group show showing Tisdall’s photograph of the Beuys Richtkräfte Aktion from 1975. VG+....

12 Apr CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI. INVENTAR. 1991. SIGNED BY BOLTANSKI.

Posted at 15:19h in EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

Hamberg: Hamburger Kunstehall, 1991
24.5 x 19cm, 136pp. Original boards. Exhibition catalogue which is really a monograph on the artist's work with colour and b/w images throughout. Essays by Uwe M. Schneede, Von Gunter Metken and Serge Lemoine and an interview with the artist.
This copy is signed in green in by Boltanski on the half-title. VG+.

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08 Apr A REFLECTION ON THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. 1991.

Posted at 11:57h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1991) 14.6 x 10.4cm, 4pp artist’s card with a drawing of a guillotine and the text:

aA Reflection on the French Revolution
No rose without a thorn

The guillotine is seen as required to support the revolution - Finlay often noted that the outcome of the "purity" of the Revolution's commitment to virtue was the terror. VG+. ...

20 Mar THE PATH OF LUCK. 1991.

Posted at 10:12h in James Lee Byars

NYC: Michael Werner, 1991 19 x12cm, unpaginated (52)pp plus boards with boards. The concise exhibition catalogue with five full colour images of sculptures. Fine. ...

18 Mar LENNY THE MUSICAL. 191.

Posted at 13:43h in Jud Yalkut

NYC: Cabaret Theatre Experiment, 1971 28 x 21.5cm, 1pp black on white offset lithographic leaflet advertising the musical about Lenny Bruce written by Fred Baker, to which Yalkut (according to the text on the leaflet) contributed ""films." Vg....

15 Mar MYTHS. 1991.

Posted at 15:59h in Artist's Books

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1991 30.8 x 12cm, 200 plus card covers and green printed dustjacket. Artist's book based on various Greek myths. Finlay supplies six small one line poems each with a single repeated illustration by Solveig Hill - such as:

APHRODITE

Oil, in the air's cool jar.

and

CHLORIS

The birds awake the dawn.

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22 Feb GULFS AND WARS. 1991.

Posted at 19:23h in Invitation Cards

Friedrichstrafen: Kunstverein Friedrichstrafen, 1991
10.5 x 21cm, 4pp announcement card with with a reproduction of Finlay's Prince Eugen print on the front. VG+.

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