12 Jul

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

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

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

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. ...

09 Jun

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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08 Jun

Posted at 09:37h in Artist's Postcards

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+. ...

07 Jun

Posted at 22:29h in Artist's Postcards

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+. ...

06 Jun

Posted at 18:33h in PHOTOGRAPHS

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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