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+. ...
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+. ...
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. ...
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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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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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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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d.. (1991) 3.1 x 14.7cm, 4pp artist's card (asymmetric fold) designed by Caroline Webb for Finlay with the French word ARBRE capped off a the front by an ornate letter M to create MARBRE which means mottled or marbled. The card refers to the silver birch (bouleau is French for Birch) and the way the bark can be of various colours. VG+. ...
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1991) 18.8 x 8.6cm, 2pp. Artist's card with a drawing of a guillotine on a platform above the text "A model of order even if set in a space filled with doubt". The killing machine is a perfect operator no matter where it is found. VG+. ...
NYC: n.p., 1991
5 x 5cm, b/w transparency with a detail of the Boltanski installation "Photographic Album of Family D" from 1991. Handwritten legend on the plastic - a slide provided by a gallery to press or clients. VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1991 9 x 10.5cm, 6pp concertina fold. Artist;s card with two paintings reproduced by Ian Gardner based on works by John Robert Cozens. VG+. ...
Paderborn-Wewer: Wolfgang Puschel, 1991
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp announcement card for a posthumous show of Beuys editions. VG+.
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Charleston: Spoleto Festival, 1991
21 x 14cm, 52pp plus original wrappers. Artist's book which displays 345 b/w images of the claimed belongings of a young woman in Charleston (the town of the Festival). One of several such artist's books surveying a student's entire inventory - shown without comment in a quasi-archival manner. Much as with the appropriated photographs of unknown people Boltanski uses an anonymous subject, In fact one cannot be sure that this is even a real person and not an accumulation of found items. Boltanski was part of the Festival exhibition "Places with a Past: new Site Specific Art in Charleston". The photographs are credited to Beth Dinoff by an attached label at the back of the book. VG+.
Referenced in Flay Boltanski Catalogue Page 200.
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