12 Mar

Posted at 16:14h in James Lee Byars

N.p.: s.p., n.d. 24cm, 4pp dia. black card circle which is folded along a slightly flattened edge on the left. Opens up to display the text “P.I.T.L.” handwritten by Byars in his starry hand. Unique within a series of such works all hand made. Limitation of series unknown. ...

03 Mar

Posted at 14:25h in Artist's Postcards

Glasgow: Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries, 1990 21 x 14.9cm, 2pp full colour postcard with an image of Finlay's title neon work on the front, verso gallery details. Photograph by Elke Walford taken during the Gresat British Art exhibition. VG+. ...

21 Feb

Posted at 07:34h in Artist's Books

Edinburgh: Graeme Murray Gallery, 1990
24.5 x 24.5cm, 56pp plus card covers and printed dust jacket with tipped on illustration. A series of drawings by Ron Costley after instructions from Finlay which reinterpret modern weaponry as classical memes. A camouflaged tank is denoted as "GROVE:.
The second part of the book has various relief sculptures which are the same as the drawings in a different medium - a warplane has the word ECHO beside it - the radar being equated to the nymph who was cursed only to speak in echos. The sculptures are by John Andrew. VG+.
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13 Jan

Posted at 11:21h in Poems in folders

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1990)
19.5 x 11.8cm, blue outer folder with a drawing of a swallow on power lines with a 4pp insert with a one line poem by Finlay:

The Sound of a Single Swallow

gathering

The amusing one word naming of the sound made by a single bird being usually associated with a group also indicates the loudness of the sound. VG+. ...

04 Jan

Posted at 11:31h in Poems in folders

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (c. 1990?) 16.5 x 12.2cm, 4pp folder content of a 4pp insert with a poem by Finlay:

FORECAST

'Rain - some
of it
heavy

more particularly
in the glens
of Scotland

where it may
fall as
sleet'

the sound
of calligrammes

The poem about the awful weather in Scotland is rounded off with a reference to Apolloniare's calligrammes and, in particular, his famous version of rain where the poem's words are in the shape of falling rain.
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02 Jan

Posted at 16:29h in Artist's Books

Little Sparta: WIld Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1990) 8.7 x 14.4cm, 12pp plus wrappers and printed dustjacket. Artist's book where two sentences by Heidegger have been added to by Finlay with a final sentence.

"In the wood are paths which mostly wind along until they end quite suddenly in an impenetrable thicket".
"They are called woodpaths"
and "They are paths where the heart and the foot walk hand in hand."

The drawing is by Solveig Hill. This is one of only 250 examples. Fine condition....

22 Dec

Posted at 16:35h in Exhibition & Other Posters

Hamberg: Hamburger Kunsthalle, 1989
84 x 60cm, duotone offset lithograph exhibition poster with a full sheet image of Finlay's Aphrodite of the Terror sculpture and floating text. An exhibition looking at Finlay's work relating to the French revolution. Folded as issued else VG....

22 Dec

Posted at 13:03h in Exhibition Catalogues

Hamburg: Hamburer Kunsthalle, 1989
15.2 x 15.2cm, 48pp. Original card covers and red dust jacket. An exhibition catalogue for an exhibition themed around Finlay's revolutionary works on the bicentenary of the events in Paris. Eight plates of sculptural works, other images of text works (some translated into German for the first time). Almost an artist's book given the lack of any commentary.

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