paul robertson, Author at Unoriginal Sins

19 Sep PASTORALES. 1987

Posted at 16:07h in Exhibition Catalogues

Paris: Galerie Claire Burrus, 1987
20 x 17cm, 6pp exhibition catalogue for a solo show of 13 sculptural works by Finlay. A long text in French and English by Thomas A. Clark. VG+.

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18 Sep IAN HAMILTON FINLAY. 1987.

Posted at 19:55h in Invitation Cards

Paris: Galerie de l"Estampe contemporaine, 1987
10.5 x 15cm, 4pp announcement card for a solo show with the work "Battle of Midway"on the front. VG+.

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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1987
12 x 8.5cm, 1pp. Artist's card with a drawing of a bust of Saint-Just. The title has a double meaning - that of a dashing young man and also a reference to the fact that Saint-Just was regarded as the "Angel of Death" by many on the National Convention because of his announcements of those who were to be arrested and probably guillotined. A young blade indeed. VG+.
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04 Sep ZEICHNUNGEN UND MULTIPLES. 1987.

Posted at 08:23h in Joseph Beuys Postcards

Koln: Edition HUndertmark, 1987 15 x 10.5cm, 2pp announcement card for a posthumous exhibition of drawings and multiples. The front of the card shows Beuys signing an edition "...

01 Sep LA TRICOTEUSE. 1987.

Posted at 22:01h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1987
12 x 8.5cm, 1pp. Artist's card with a none too flattering portrait of one of Finlay's enemies, Catherine Millet, and under neath the title "LA TRICOTEUSE". A tricoteuse was the nickname (a knitting woman) given to the rather bloodthirsty women next to the guillotine who supposedly knitted as the heads dropped. VG+.

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30 Aug FROM THE NABIS SERIES: DER UNTERGANG DES ABENDLANDES. 1987.

Posted at 14:04h in Prints + Posters

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1987
21.2 x 19.5cm, printed black on dark grey outer folder content of a single 21.2 x 19.5cm offset lithograph on bright red paper paper.
The folder has " DER UNTERGANG DES ABENDLANDES" printed at the top which is a reference to Oswald Spengler's theoretical history "Decline of the West" from 1918. The inner sheet has "effulgence of the robin" printed black in the middle of the sheet all in lower case.
Spengler (a controversial historian) can clearly be seen as a classicist and it is tempting to think Finlay is approving here of his belief in the higher aesthetics of an earlier age. Additionally the phrase" From the Nabis Series" references the short lived Nabis group of painters -Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Paul Ranson, Édouard Vuillard, Ker-Xavier Roussel, Félix Vallotton, and Paul Sérusier. symbolists who took their name from the Hebrew nebiim (which means prophet). The bright red of the insert on one level references the bright colours of the group but also may well be seen as the classical a symbol of redemption. VG+>

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29 Aug HEAD OF GWYN HEADLEY. 1987.

Posted at 22:11h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1987
12 x 8.5cm, 1pp. Artist's card with a photograph of a sculpted head of the author of Follies. A National Trust Guide which had angered Finlay for its description of Little Sparta. The head was later used in the sculpture Three Heads (now in the Glasgow Museum of Modern Art) - the sculpture shows the three heads of Waldemar Januszczak, Gwyn Headley and Catherine Millet in baskets as if they had been guillotined. Finlay was not that forgiving a man in his middle age.
Interestingly the work went missing from the storage of the museum and had to be remade in 2013. VG+.

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29 Aug HEAD OF WALDEMAR JANUSZCZAK. 1987.

Posted at 22:08h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1987
12 x 8.5cm, 1pp. Artist's card with a photograph of a sculpted head of the Guardian critic that Finlay used in the sculpture Three Heads (now in the Glasgow Museum of Modern Art) - the sculpture shows the three heads of Waldemar Januszczak, Gwyn Headley and Catherine Millet in baskets as if they had been guillotined. Finlay was not that forgiving a man in his middle age.
Interestingly the work went missing from the storage of the museum and had to be remade in 2013. VG+.

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29 Aug BOLTANKSI. 1987.

Posted at 19:33h in POSTERS

Dusseldorf: Kunstverein fur die Rheinlande und Westfalen, 1987
84 x 59.5cm, full colour lithographic offset exhibition poster with an image of a Boltanski installation Lecons de Tenebres Les Ombres, Paris 1986. VG+.

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29 Aug CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI INSERT FOR LES LYCEES CHASES. 1987.

Posted at 17:09h in EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

Dusseldorf: Kunstverein fur die Rheinlande und Westfalen, 1987
30 x 21cm, 8pp (self cover). The printed insert for Le Lycee Chases exhibition catalogue that was only added for the exhibition in Dusseldorf that the show was taken too after Saint-Ettienne. Text in German with b/w images. VG+.

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29 Aug LES LYCEES CHASES. 1987. WITH PRINTED INSERT.

Posted at 16:51h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Dusseldorf: Kunstverein fur die Rheinlande und Westfalen, 1987 30 x 21cm, 62pp plus card covers and printed typographic dustjacket. Exhibition catalogue and artist's book which shows the photograph "Classe Terminale du Lycee Chases en 1931 Castelgasse Vienne" on the title page followed by enlargements of each of the faces of the children (not the teacher) - each on a page printed on semi-opaque paper to give a ghostly feel to the faces which are also out of focus due to the enlargement which doubles the affect. The final page of the book is an installation view showing the photographs displayed on the walls each with a lamp light above it. This is one of two artist books based on the same touring show - here in Germany and also in Saint-Ettienne. JOINT: Dusseldorf: Kunstverein fur die Rheinlande und Westfalen, 1987 The printed 4pp insert with a further text in German and many b/w images of Boltanski's other work. VG+. ...

29 Aug LE LYCESS CHASES. 1987.

Posted at 13:14h in EPHEMERA

Dusseldorf: Stadtische Kunsthalle, 1987 21 x 10cm, 6pp announcement card - internally one work (Les Reserves, 1987) in colour and museum text. VG+....