Nagoya: ICA, 1990
30 x 21cm, 32pp plus printed card wrappers. Exhibition catalogue for Boltanski's first one person show in Japan for 20 years (he had previously taken part in a film festival in 1970. Installing a mixture of older and new work in the entire museum - there are 16 installation views in colour here plus an essay in English and Japanese by Fumio Nanjo. VG+.
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Aachen: Neueraachenkunstverein, 1990
21 x 15cm, 20pp. Card covers and printed green dustjacket. Exhibition catalogue for a solo show of mostly printed editions. Ten works reproduced in colour and b/w. Essay by Pia Simig in German. VG+.

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Eindhoven/Grenoble: Van Abbemuseum/Musée de Grenoble, 1990 (not printed on the publication which as a facsimile has the original 1975 publication details on it)
21 x 29cm, 32pp plus card covers. First edition, with black tape spine, of this artist's book which displays the various comic performances by Boltanski where he pretended to be various parental and authority figures in a child's life and common scenes relating to those figures - additionally the artist had painted various backgrounds for each scene. Twenty-two b/w images reproduced in the book, two per page. The performances were Le baiser honteux, La premiere communion, La visite du docteur, L'anniversaire, La toilete du matin. Two b/w images of the artist on every page.
This is the second edition of the book (published as part of the Reconstitution Box) which is exactly the same as the first edition apart from the black tape on the spine found on the original is not here - which is unhelpful to dealers and collectors. However this example is not just VG+ it is signed in ink by Boltanski on the inside cover. The first edition is extremely hard to find, this second edition much less so.

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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1990
5.0 x 17.8cm, 2pp card. One side has the text: "A ROSE IS A ROSE IS A ROSE" accredited to "Gertrude Jekyll" and on the other side "ARROWS ARE ARROWS ARE ARROWS" accredited to "Hereclitus". Jekyll was an influential turn of the century gardener and the quote is an adaption of Shakespeare as is the fake quotation offered as Hereclitian. The latter, of course, stressed the lack of repetition in history. A jokey work. VG+.

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Edinburgh: Graeme Murray Gallery, 1990
24.5 x 19cm, 44pp plus card wrappers,. First edition of the first catalogue raisonne published by Finlay's then dealer covering the entire range of prints, artist books and cards published by the Press and also the Morning Star Press. Extensive but with many mistakes regarding dates and sizes - however in fairness for years this was the only documentation of the output of the press for collectors. VG+.

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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1990

21 x 21cm, white outer folder content of two 21 x 21cm b/w lithographs by Gary Hincks which parody Victor Vasarely's op-art style. In both (one in outline, the other solid black) the outer square shapes slowly turn into guillotine blades much as OpArt works often show slow gradual change in shapes.
This is a visual poem which is made more poignant with the two quotes on the inside of the folder - one from Vasarely: "Let us first kill in ourselves egocentricity" and another from Anacharsis Cloots - the French anarchist - "France you will be happy when you are finally cured of individuals." by their addition the work reveals itself as being about the tension between the individuals role in the state versus his/her rights to individual liberty. VG+.

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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1990
42.2 x 14.7cm (folded size) offset lithograph which when open displays the elevations of the finials - drawn by Andrew Townsend- a note on the outside of the card points to the "pineapple" finials visually being like fragmentation grenades and that the use of brick and stone being a poetic metaphor of the philosophies of Terror and Virtue during the French Revolution. One of 250 copies made. VG+.

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