Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1989
12.8 x 20.3, 2pp card. The card has an appropriated drawing of a hunt in full chase - the hare has the name De Mann over it. Paul de Mann was an important literary critic who alongside Derrida popularised the concept of deconstruction. Finlay WAs clearly no fan. VG+.
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Paris: Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, 1989
10.5 x 21cm, 1pp typographic announcement card printed in red and black for a solo gallery show. Slight bumping top right else VG. ...
Koln: Edition Hansjörg Mayer, 1999
25 x 18 cm. 192pp plus card covers and French folds. A collective artist's book in hommage of the publisher Walther König with contributions by John Baldessari, Lothar Baumgarten, Bernd & Hilla Becher, ein loses vierseitiges Insert von Claus Böhmler, Christian Boltanski, George Brecht, Günter Brus, Hanne Darboven, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Peter Fischli & David Weiß, Isa Genzken, Hans Haacke, Candida Höfer, Carsten Höller, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, On Kawara, Sol LeWitt, Nam June Paik, ein lose einliegendes Walther König-Lesezeichen von Tobias Rehberger, Ulrich Rückriem, Tomas Schmit, Schuldt, Thomas Struth, Rosemarie Trockel, Franz Erhard Walther. The cover was designed by Lawrence Weiner. Slightly grubby cover but else VG.
Boltanski has contributed an original pagework a photograph of a young boy holding a book in front of a bookshop which purports to be Konig at age 10 - something which we cannot verify or a typical Boltanski strategy of using a model to pretend to be the book dealer.
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NYC: n.p., 1989
5 x 5cm, b/w transparency with a detail of the Boltanski installation "Reliquary" from 1989. Handwritten legend on the plastic - a slide provided by a gallery to press or clients. VG+.
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Little Sparta: Committee of Public Safety/Wild Hawthorn Press, 1989 10.8 x 11.2cm, 4pp. A proposal by Finlay that the celebration of the bicentenary of the French Revolution should be celebrated by A REVOLUTION! Both classed as a "proposal" and also an artist's card. VG+. ...
Frankfurt: Galerie Lupke, 2010 30 x 21cm, 2pp. Announcement card (on paper) with a b/w installation image of a Finlay exhibition on the two hundredth anniversary of the French Revolution, short text in German on the back and biography. Folded for mailing else VG. ...
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1988
31.4 x 22cm, 52pp plus card covers and dustjacket. A series of "definitions", one of Finlay's innovations in experimental poetry where a word is given an alternative meaning by the addition of a classical or modern quotation. For example:
PATCH, n.
1. A whole part.
The trousers and jumpers of men vary in hue from the brightest orange vermilion to the palest rose pink, and are decorated with every imaginable sort of PATCH.
Peter Anson, The Breton Sardine Fisheries.
As we have noted elsewhere Finlay regards a patch as a symbol of warm, caring as well as poverty.
Slight bumping to corners of the book - else VG+. One of 250 copies published at Christmas 1988....
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1988.
83 x 10.8cm, 4pp - the Xmas card sent out by Finlay in 1988 to friends and clients. The card bears a poem:
A FRAGMENT
When bare black hedgerows
Wear white shadows
And the fields without snow
Face the fire:
a rug
The white shadows are the plumes of snow on the branches and the fields without snow is a visual correspondence of the rug. The other sides of the card are blank - or white like snow. VG+. Scarce....
La Rochelle: Maison de la culture La Rochelle., 1978
15 x 10.5cm, 40pp plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue consisting only of reproductions (four in colour) of mostly performance related works by the artist including his dalliance with dance as a set designer - Le Saut de l'ange from 1987 (with two images in b/w from the work and one painting/sketch), other works include his performance of the 70s and shadow plays. The sections are: Saynete Comiques, La Punition Injuste, La Baiser Cache, L'Anniversaire, Les Compositions, Les Ombres and the dance work.
The dance work can be seen here: https://www.numeridanse.tv/en/dance-videotheque/le-saut-de-lange-0
Rusted stitches else VG+. Very scarce.
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NYC: David Nolan Gallery, n.d. (188)
12.8 x 17.8cm, 2pp typographic design for a posthumous show of drawings and editions. VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1988
30 x 42cm, black on white offset lithograph. One print from a number which Finlay denoted as the Picabia Series (there were red on white versions of these works also). Each of the series is a witty reworking of a well known saying - here "Don't Cast your Revolutions before Swine". A revolution, this poster suggests , should not be wasted on an unwilling or undeserving populus. VG.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1988
30 x 42cm, black on white offset lithograph. One print from a number which Finlay denoted as the Picabia Series (there were red on white versions of these works also). Each of the series is a witty reworking of a well known saying - here "Spare the Blade and Spoil the Factions". A suggestion that one should be decisive in one's oppression of your opponents. VG.
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