Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1987
29.6 x 21cm, green on light brown offset lithograph with a lengthy text with two conflicting etymologies of the word Folly. The first from a National Trust book on Follies which had attracted Finlay's ire for including Little Sparta as a folly has a negative connotations. The second is from the French "folie" - meaning delight or favourite abode which clearly Finlay prefers. VG+>
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1987
7.5 x 7.5cm, 4pp artist's card with a drawing of an arrow wrapping around the card and overprinted with a poem:
MEMORY
Arrow
which never
forgets
Time moves only in one direction like an arrow but one might also suggest a wound or mark from an arrow is somewhat irreversible. VG+.
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Zurich: Parkett, 1987
25.5 x 21cm, 132pp plus pages and pages of adverts. Original card covers. A single number of this important artist's journal which has a lengthy artist on Finlay by Bernard Marcade in both German and English. Many b/w illustrations of works. VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1987
6.9 x 16.4cm, 1pp artist's card with a drawing of a musket with bayonet from the French revolutionary wars. A socle is a plinth that is underneath a block, a column, urn, or a statue. The bayonet is supported by the gun in the same way and the stock is thus in some sense a socle. VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1987
29.7 × 21m, red on white offset lithograph. The print has four statements on it - dogmatically - DELEGATION WITH RESPONSE EQUALS DEMONSTRATION/WHEN WORDS HAVE FAILED THERE IS A STATE OF WAR/EVENTS ARE A DISCOURSE /FIGHT THE INTELLECTUAL TERRORISTS CANCEL PICABIA NOW!". Part of Finlay's continuing campaign against Strathclyde Region over a Rates dispute.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1987
22.8 x 22.2cm, offset lithograph printed black on deep blue stock inside an outer red folder with the word FILIGER printed on the front page. On the blue sheet the definition of the word - "Jewel work of a delicate kind made with threads and beads." is given. The intense colours of the papers used give a glimpse at this meaning by their attractive brightness reflecting the bright expressionist colours of the symbolists but FILIGER also refers to Charles Filiger the French Symbolist painter and friend of Gauguin. He along with Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Paul Ranson, Édouard Vuillard, Ker-Xavier Roussel, Félix Vallotton, and Paul Sérusier. were known as the Nabis group - taking their name from the Hebrew nebiim which means prophet. Sadly Filiger died an alcoholic after years of self-neglect. He might have been seen as a "delicate kind". VG+ condition.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1987
10 x 10cm, 4pp artist's card with a reproduced painting of bunch of growing poppies. Phrygia was a part of heroic Greece but the Phrygain bonnet was accepted as a sign of French revolutionary zeal and worn by republicans. A note on the back of the card notes that the red of the hats often "transformed the streets of Paris into lanes of moving poppies." Painting by Jo Hincks. VG+.
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N.p.: Edition Vogelscheuche, 1987 15 x 10.5cm, 2pp photopostcard with an image of Beuys which the photographer indicates was taken at Dokumenta 8 in 1987. This is clearly incorrect given Beuys died in 1986 (although he did exhibit posthumously). We assume it was taken at Dokumenta 7 in 1983. Edition size unknown. VG+....
N.p.: Edition Vogelscheuche, 1987 15 x 10.5cm, 2pp photopostcard with an image of Beuys which the photographer indicates was taken at Dokumenta 8 in 1987. This is clearly incorrect given Beuys died in 1986 (although he did exhibit posthumously). We assume it was taken at Dokumenta 7 in 1983. Edition size unknown. VG+....
N.p.: Edition Vogelscheuche, 1987 15 x 10.5cm, 2pp photopostcard with an image of Beuys which the photographer indicates was taken at Dokumenta 8 in 1987. This is clearly incorrect given Beuys died in 1986 (although he did exhibit posthumously). We assume it was taken at Dokumenta 7 in 1983. Edition size unknown. VG+....
N.p.: n.p., 1987
A standard b/w photographic 35mm slide with an image of a Finlay sculptural intervention in the landscape - here the work "Great Piece of Turf" (for a discussion of this work see separate listing on cards). The work is to be found in Little Sparta, Scotland. The slide was prepared for a book "Art in America" (which is strange given the geographical location of the work pictured). VG+....
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1987
9 x 12.7cm, 2pp. Artist's card with a drawing of a fence with the gate replaced with a booby trap of a guillotine. The back of the card and a sign on the front declares The Garden is Open for members of the National Trust. Snarky as ever. VG+.
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