paul robertson, Author at Unoriginal Sins

30 Jul “DON’T PUT ALL YOUR HEADS IN ONE BASKET”. 1988.

Posted at 10:02h in Invitation Cards

Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland, n.d. (1988)
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp. Announcement card with a work by Finlay from the group of works known as the "Picabia Series" - here 'DON'T PUT ALL YOUR HEADS IN ONE BASKET". The exhibition was of the work of the surrealist and dadaist Picabia but the museum decided to use Finlay's work as publicity for the show (and the work was exhibited along side the various works from the turn of the century and 1920s.). One of three different cards issued at the same time. Murray has this as an artist's postcard in his catalogue raisonne - but it clearly is not. VG+.

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30 Jul ‘SPARE THE BLADE AND SPOIL THE FACTIONS”. 1988.

Posted at 09:07h in Invitation Cards

Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland, n.d. (1988)
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp. Announcement card with a work by Finlay from the group of works known as the "Picabia Series" - here 'SPARE THE BLADE AND SPOIL THE FACTIONS". The exhibition was of the work of the surrealist and dadaist Picabia but the museum decided to use Finlay's work as publicity for the show (and the work was exhibited along side the various woRKS from the turn of the century and 1920s.). One of three different cards issued at the same time. Murray has this as an artist's postcard in his catalogue raisonne - but it clearly is not. VG+.

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21 Jul A COUNTRY LANE. 1988.

Posted at 08:07h in Artist's Books

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1988
15.5 x 10.6cm, 24pp with 4pp light green end papers, card covers and printed dust jacket. The full title of the book is "A Country Lane with Stiles" and explains Finlay's putative "country lane" which was expected to be a major installation in the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival. However Finlay withdrew his involvement in the Festival in protest at the Strathclyde Region's dispute with him over the Garden Temple.
The lane was to be a metaphoric peon to De Stijl the modernist Dutch art movement and Finlay lists the flowers and trees that were to be planted. The rest of the book are poetic considerations of stiles illustrated by Laurie Clark.

STILES 1
Thesis: fence.
Anti-thesis: gate.
Synthesis: stile

One of 500 printed. VG+. Not in Murray's catalogue raisonne.

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19 Jul ART IN THE GARDEN. INSTALLATIONS. 1988.

Posted at 16:34h in Exhibition Catalogues

Glasgow: Glasgow Garden Festival, 1988
24 x 30.4cm, 120pp, plus original pictorial card covers. Exhibition catalogue for the popular Garden Festival where Finlay exhibited his Country Lane with Stiles with its dialectic:

THESIS
fence
ANTITHESIS
Gate
and the synthesis being Style.
Another work was a stone plaque on a dry stane dyke wall. Both works are reproduced in b/w in the catalogue. VG+.

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12 Jul A PROPOSAL FOR THE FOREST OF DEAN. 1988.

Posted at 21:16h in Proposals

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1988, 32.6 x 26cm, black on cream lithograph in folder. A drawing by Gary Hinck of the forest next to a pond after the original by WIlliam Kent and a sketch of one of the tree-plaques. Each tree scupture has either SIlence, Schweigen or Silenzio on it "calling attention to the peaceful surroundings". Sadly this print had a faint diagonal crease on the left else VG in like unprinted folder.

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07 Jul THE DESMOULINS CONNECTION. News from England: A gerbil was elected Grand Secretary of the University of East Anglia Student Union, and Waldemar Januszczak was appointed Literary Editor of the Guardian.. 1988.

Posted at 12:15h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press / The Committee of Public Safety, 1988 4.4 x 9.9cm (folded size), 4pp artist's card with the text: "THE DESMOULINS CONNECTION. News from England: A gerbil was elected Grand Secretary of the University of East Anglia Student Union, and Waldemar Januszczak was appointed Literary Editor of the Guardian." and printed black on red. Issued by Finlay as part of a series of c. 13 similar small cards each attacking enemies of the poet. VG+. ...

07 Jul THE DESMOULINS CONNECTION. News from Strathclyde Region: In Strathclyde, where the Authority has direct access to the citizen’s bank account, self-locking mattresses are all the rage. 1988.

Posted at 12:13h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press / The Committee of Public Safety, 1988 4.4 x 9.9cm (folded size), 4pp artist's card with the text: "THE DESMOULINS CONNECTION. "News from Strathclyde Region: In Strathclyde, where the Authority has direct access to the citizen's bank account, self-locking mattresses are all the rage." and printed black on red. Issued by Finlay as part of a series of c. 13 similar small cards each attacking enemies of the poet. VG+. ...

07 Jul THE DESMOULINS CONNECTION. “Liberalism, n. a state of affairs in which the tree cuts down the axe.” 1988.

Posted at 12:12h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press / The Committee of Public Safety, 1988 4.4 x 9.9cm (folded size), 4pp artist's card with the text: "THE DESMOULINS CONNECTION. "Liberalism, n. a state of affairs in which the tree cuts down the axe" and printed black on yellow. Issued by Finlay as part of a series of c. 13 similar small cards each attacking enemies of the poet. VG+. ...

07 Jul THE DESMOULINS CONNECTION. “Deserters don’t like to be reminded that this world is a battlefield.” 1988.

Posted at 12:09h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press / The Committee of Public Safety, 1988 4.4 x 9.9cm (folded size), 4pp artist's card with the text: "THE DESMOULINS CONNECTION. "Deserters don't like to be reminded that this world is a battlefield." Saint-Just Vigilante on certain liberals who dislike disputes." and printed black on grey. Issued by Finlay as part of a series of c. 13 similar small cards each attacking enemies of the poet. VG+. ...

07 Jul THE DESMOULINS CONNECTION. In liberal democracy the Police may be unarmed but Fashion carries a gun. 1988

Posted at 12:04h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press / The Committee of Public Safety, 1988 4.4 x 9.9cm (folded size), 4pp artist's card with the text: "THE DESMOULINS CONNECTION. In liberal democracy the Police may be unarmed but Fashion carries a gun." and printed black on grey. Issued by Finlay as part of a series of c. 13 similar small cards each attacking enemies of the poet. VG+. ...

07 Jul THE DESMOULINS CONNECTION. DON’T BE OVERHEARD SAYING THAT VIOLENCE EXISTS IN THE UNIVERSE: YOU MAY GET SHOT. 1988

Posted at 11:54h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press / The Committee of Public Safety, 1988 4.4 x 9.9cm (folded size), 4pp artist's card with the text: "THE DESMOULINS CONNECTION "Don't be overheard saying that violence exists in the universe: you may get shot." Saint-Just Vigilante, after listening to Julian Spalding's radio interview with Ian Hamilton Finlay." and printed black on grey. Issued by Finlay as part of a series of c. 13 similar small cards each attacking enemies of the poet. VG+. ...

07 Jul THE DESMOULINS CONNECTION. Millet, Hirschfeld, Hayat…. 1988

Posted at 11:09h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press / The Committee of Public Safety, 1988 4.4 x 9.9cm (folded size), 4pp artist's card with the text: "THE DESMOULINS CONNECTION/Millet, Hirschfeld, Hayat - certain natures compare to human nature as a modern slurry-pit to an old-fashioned farm-midden" and printed black on yellow. Issued by Finlay as part of a series of c. 13 similar small cards each attacking enemies of the poet. VG+. ...