Paris: Centre Georges Pomidou, 1984
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp. Full colour postcard with one of Boltanski's comic self portraits that he began to create in the 70s (this one from 1974), The original is a photograph that Boltanski would colour with paint/oil stick. Fine.
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Zurich: Kunsthaus Zurich, 1984
15 x 17cm, 2pp announcement card with a shadow sculpture in full colour on the front and verso museum details in German - the same design as the announcement card for the Paris show in the same year. VG+....
London/Boston, Starkmann Books, n.d. (1984) 20.2 x 15cm. 2pp announcement card and subscription for the book by Lucrezia de Domizio, Buby Durini, Italo Tomassoni based on their interactions and public events with Beuys. The front of the card has a full colour image of Beuys on a bicycle next to boxes of FIU wine (a portrait taken by Buby Durini during the "Scultura Vino F.I.U. Happening" that took place in Düsseldorf, 1983. VG+. ...
London/Boston, Starkmann Books, n.d. (1984) 16 x 10.8cm. 4pp announcement card and subscription for the book by Lucrezia de Domizio, Buby Durini, Italo Tomassoni based on their interactions and public events with Beuys. The front of the card has a full colour image of Beuys on a bicycle next to boxes of FIU wine (a portrait taken by Buby Durini during the "Scultura Vino F.I.U. Happening" that took place in Düsseldorf, 1983. Internally is a detachable subscription card for the book. VG+. ...
Southampton: Southampton Art Gallery, 1984
21 x 14.8cm, 48pp plus printed wrappers with tipped on reproduced drawing. Offically an exhibition catalogue for a touring show and also a single number of the poetry and literature review New Arcadians - here dedicated to Finlay who wrote the text. The catalogue is illustrated throughout by Andrew Griffiths. The works all relate to the Little Sparta War as well as proposed artworks that are grounded in the Nazi iconography (as Finlay points out elsewhere these works do not support fascism - the symbolism of the Third Reich is powerful and can be detourned for good reasons by artists).
This is really an artist's book by Finlay and we are cataloguing it as such. One of 1000 hand-numbered copies. . VG+.
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Cincinatti: C.A.G.E., 1984 28 x 21.5cm, 1pp black on white small poster for a group show of art videos with Baggs, Murray, Duesing, Lewis, Chan, Wilson, Fischer, Sippel and Jud Yalkut. VG....
Dayton, OH: Dayton Convention Center, 1984 21.5 x 28cm, 1pp black on white floor plan for the major three -day installation of video vectors by Yalkut in the lobby of the Dayton Convention Center. VG....
Pescara: Lucrecia De Domizio, n.d. (1984)
15.2 x 20.cm, 2pp announcement card for for the "Defense of Nature" event/aktion where Beuys planted thousands of trees to reclaim land from man's ill-effects on the landscape. This is one of two related cards here with an image from the action of workers holding up a banner with the title of the event. This example is signed by Beuys in red felt tipped pen. VG+.
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Little Sparta: Finlay, 1984
30 x 21cm, 1pp,. Offset lithographic press release and newsletter for supporters. Finlay lets everyone know that a new summary warrant against the Garden Temple has been issued by Strathclyde Region and warns of a second "assault" on the Temple and possible imprisonment of those living there. He also points out that Strathclyde Region hold works "stolen" under the previous warrant that are worth more than twice the disputed amount over the Rates bill and that some of the works taken were returned after US embassy intervention for the items jointly owned by US museums. The circular/press release then ends with a long quotation from Schiller. VG.
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N.p. (Heidelberg): Galerie Schellmann & Kluser, 1984 21 x 15cm, 4pp announcement card for an exhibition showing two early bronze sculptures by Beuys- "Ofen" from 1950 and Tierfrai from 1949. Both shown in b/w on the inside of the card. VG+. ...
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, (1984)
6.4 x 20.9cm, 4pp artist's card with a drawing of an axe by Richard Healy with the title text on the "handle". The words "He spoke like an axe" came from his rival Barere and reference the surety that the young revolutionary brought to the debating chamber but also his reputation where he was the "Angel of death" announcing the condemned to the gathered representatives. VG+.
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Tokyo: Seibu Museum, 1984 25.5 x 18cm, 2pp announcement leaflet for a late solo show with four images of the artist and works front and back and a text in Japanese. VG+. ...