paul robertson, Author at Unoriginal Sins

22 May SIX PROPOSALS FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF STOCKWOOD PARK NURSERIES. 1986. SIX PRINTS IN FOLDERS.

Posted at 14:06h in Proposals

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1986
Six separate prints - each 27 x 34cm in unprinted folders and outer printed folder. One of 250 copies.
Each print in this portfolio reproduces a drawing or watercolour in one colour for Finlay's six proposals for the garden nurseries in Luton. Each proposal is a definition of a word associated with open nature such as "Flock" but with a classical Greek twist. Drawings were by Gary Hinks.
Ref: Murray 6.18.

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21 May TERROR IS THE PIETY OF THE REVOLUTION. A COMMENTARY. 1986.

Posted at 08:53h in Wild Hawthorn Press

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1986
11 x 7.7cm, 16pp with printed card covers. A text by Stoddart on sculptural works installed in the Garden Temple considers in the main just one - Terror is the Piety of the Revolution - where the author claims it is a work open to interpretation but "it clears a no-man's-land between the two factions of Neo-classicists and Modernists."
Murray places this in his catalogue raisonne as the last work in the "Wild Hawthorn Press" section - by which he really means it is the last of the books/works published by other authors who are not Finlay himself. The gap in time between the 13th publication in that section and this one is 20 years - which makes us question that categorisation although Murray is right (without actually saying so) to note that Finlay did not publish any other authors other than himself and collaborations after 1968 (with the cessation of Poor. Old Tired. Horse.), We have kept to Murray's organisation scheme here but with slight qualms. Scarce book - VG+ although very slight rust to one staple

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15 May LECON DE TENEBRES. 1986.

Posted at 17:04h in EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

Munchen: Kunstverein Munchen, 1986
26.8 x 20cm,48pp plus pictorial card covers. Exhibition catalogue which includes the shadow play works "Les Ombres" and the installations "Les Monuments". Colour and b/w images of all and an interview in German with the artist (Demosthenes Davvestas). VG+.

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15 May LECON DES TENEBRES. 1986.

Posted at 08:25h in POSTERS

Munchen: Kunstverein Munchen, 1986 59.5 x 42cm, black and yellow on white offset exhibition poster for a solo show of Boltanski's shadow works. Formerly folded else VG+. ...

14 May LECON DES TENEBRES. 1986.

Posted at 10:23h in EPHEMERA

Munchen: Kunstverein Munchen, 1986
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp full colour announcement card with an image from the shadow play installation on the front and verso museum details. The title "LECON DES TENEBRES." translates to "LESSON OF DARKNESS' and the work with its strong lighting and deeply black shadows and grotesque images - which are expanded in size because of the projection on to a wall - is a little unsettling.
Like other installations Boltanski allows the guts of the simple projection techniques to be seen - the lights are modern halogens, the cables are left exposed, the hand made puppets and shapes can be seen as well as their projections behind them. The artificiality is on show.
One might muse as to Plato's allegory of the cave as an influence or a metaphor for unknowing - but we will do that elsewhere. VG+.

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07 May SCULPTURE IN THE PARK. THE IAN HAMILTON FINLAY SCULPTURE GARDEN. 1986?

Posted at 11:19h in Exhibition Catalogues

Luton: Luton Borough Council, n.d. (1986?)
21 x 15cm, 8pp. A catalogue for the recently installed sculptural garden by Finlay at Stockwood Park in Luton. Seven images in blue and black duotone of the works and a map as well as an anonymous essay. Finlay issued a portfolio of prints with the proposals for this garden in the same year. VG+.

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04 May MANRESA. 1986.

Posted at 17:14h in Joseph Beuys Cards 1980s, Joseph Beuys Cards Posthumous, Joseph Beuys Postcards

Utrecht: Hedensaagse Kunst, 1986 15 x 10.5cm, 1pp announcement card for a show that took place very soon (May 1986) after the artist's sudden death from a heart attack. One b/w photograph of the Manresa aktion from 1966 on the front (taken by Ute Klophais), verso gallery details. VG+....

04 May PANGENESE/KREUZAKTION. 1986.

Posted at 16:58h in Joseph Beuys Cards 1980s, Joseph Beuys Cards Posthumous, Joseph Beuys Postcards

Utrecht: Hedensaagse Kunst, 1986 15 x 10.5cm, 1pp announcement card for a show that took place very soon (May 1986) after the artist's sudden death from a heart attack. One b/w photograph of Beuys looking at the installation Kreuzaktion from 1969 on the front (taken by Bernd Jansen), verso gallery details. VG+....

04 May HET KRUIS ALS UNIVERSEEL TEKEN BIJ JOSEPH BEUYS. 1986.

Posted at 15:13h in Joseph Beuys Cards 1980s, Joseph Beuys Cards Posthumous, Joseph Beuys Postcards

Utrecht: Hedensaagse Kunst, 1986 15 x 10.5cm, 4pp announcement card for a show that took place very soon (May 1986) after the artist's sudden death from a heart attack. One colour image of a drawing on the front, internally and back gallery details. VG+....

25 Apr THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF IAN HAMILTON FINLAY. RUBBER STAMPED ENVELOPE. 1986.

Posted at 13:23h in Unique Works

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1986
Folded empty DL manilla envelope with black rubber stamp impression with the text: "THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF IAN HAMILTON FINLAY".
This was an original small work sent by Finlay to Peter Townsend. It is a comment on Finlay's fight with Catherine Millet who bizarrely and wrongly accused Finlay of being an anti-semite. The envelope of course had no facts inside it - which was Finlay's view of his accuser's arguments. Unique thus. We presume other such envelopes were created given that Finlay had the rubber stamp made but we have never seen another example.

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21 Apr ENVELOPE WITH MANY RUBBER STAMPINGS SENT AS A GIFT WITH HANDWRITTEN NOTE. 1986. UNIQUE.

Posted at 22:02h in Letters + Documents

Little Sparta: Finlay, n.d. (1986)
Standard hand addressed DL manilla postal envelope notable for many red and blue rubber stamp impression added by Finlay to the front and the back. Sent as a gift to the editor of Art Monthly, Peter Townsend (not the musician). JOINT: 15 x 21cm, black ink on paper - with a handwritten note to Townsend: "A little medley of "insulting" war stamps. Evidently authoritarians are people of very delicate sensibilities and very little capacity to read and think.". VG.
JOINT:
A standard mailing envelope hand addressed to The Editor Art Monthly by Finlay and rubber stamped with "The peopole has a right to rigorous bureaucracy.". Opened neatly.

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20 Apr HERECLITIAN VARIATIONS. 1986.

Posted at 20:22h in Artist's Books

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1986
11 x 9cm, 20pp plus overside printed card wrappers. Quotations from Hereclitus are used to illuminate the missile attack on HMS Sheffield on 4 May 1982. The classical words all regard the transformation of water and air into fire - which ends with the quote "Exocet steers all." which is the line about Zeus - "Lightning steers all" but with the name of the missile replacing the God's weapon of choice. Finally a polarised image of the horrific attack on the warship is reproduced in b/w. VG+.

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