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13 May DIFESA DELLA NATURA. 1984.

Pescara: Lucrezia De Domizio, 1984
16 x 122cm, 2pp - announcement for the "Defense of Nature" event/aktion where Beuys planted thousands of trees to reclaim land from man's ill-effects on the landscape. Typographic design only, printed letterpress. Map on the back to show how to drive to the event. VG+.

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12 May CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI. 1984. SIGNED BY BOLTANSKI.

Posted at 19:26h in POSTERS

Baden-Baden: Staatliche Kunsthalle, 1984
59 x 84cm, full colour lithographic offset exhibition poster with an image of a Boltanski photographs of one his roughly made models - here a sort of monster made out of a wooden clothes peg and cork. This poster is signed in black ink by the artist.VG+.

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12 May CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI. 1984. SIGNED BY BOLTANSKI.

Posted at 16:32h in EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

Baden-Baden: Staatliche Kunsthalle, 1984
27 x 22.5cm, 92pp plus pictorial card covers. Exhibition catalogue for a large scale exhibition of Boltanski's photographic Compositions - starkly lit scenes where found models or brightly coloured hand-made puppets are displayed like dioramas. Additionally the artist creates roughly made puppets out of card board or household waste which are painted and the somewhat grotesque figurative works placed in darkness and highlighted by carefully placed lights.
Coloured images throughout and essays in German as well as an illustrated biography (which is similar to that found in other exhibition catalogues). Slight creases on the corner of the front cover but else VG+. This copy is signed in black felt tipped pen on the first half title page by Boltanski.

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07 May CHARM. 1984.

Posted at 13:29h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1984 15.2 x 11.8cm , 1pp light blue on white card. The card with a drawing of a floral bundle with ribbons by Laurie Clark above a "definition" work:
CHARM, n. a something pleasing in a person or thing; it came in with the Revolution and went out with the War.
There is also a quote from Michelet's History of the French revolution discussing the major public festivals that were organised during the later years of the uprising. Finlay's definition of Charm is heavily related to the actions of the French revolution - placing it on a footing equal to Virtue. VG+.

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05 May JOSEPH BEUYS. ETCHINGS AND BRONZES. 1984.

Posted at 09:50h in Uncategorised

London: Editions Schellmann & Kluser, 1984
21 x 15cm, 4pp announcement card with two works reproduced internally (Dead Stags from 1982 and Bath-Tub for a Heroine, 1984) internally, exhibition and gallery details on the front and back covers. VG+.

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02 May THE GARDEN TEMPLE (APOLLO’S TEMPLE OF REASON) LITTLE SPARTA. 1984.

Posted at 18:03h in Letters + Documents

Little Sparta: s.p. (Finlay), n.p. (1984) 30 x 21cm, 4pp (printed recto only) previously stapled. The handout given to visitors to Little Sparta describing the various rooms in the Garden Temple and the works inside them. Unusual for Finlay this gives insight into his work (all related to the French Revolution). Rust from the former staple else VG+. ...

18 Apr ZEICHEN AUS DEM BRAUNRAUM. 1984. STAMPED.

Posted at 14:39h in Joseph Beuys Cards 1980 - 23rd January 1986, Joseph Beuys Cards 1980s, Joseph Beuys Postcards

Heidelberg: Edition Staeck, 1984 15 x 10.55cm, 1pp heading card for the release of the six postcards for the title portfolio. This typographic design is rubber stamped with an FIU impression in blue....

16 Apr JOSEPH BEUYS DRAWINGS. 1984.

Posted at 09:26h in Joseph Beuys Cards 1980 - 23rd January 1986, Joseph Beuys Cards 1980s, Joseph Beuys Postcards

Cambridge: Harvard University Art Museums, 1984 9.8 x 21.6cm, 2pp announcement card with one drawing (Il Cavalliere) reproduced on the front with museum text. VG+. ...

10 Apr SOYNETES COMIQUES. MA MERE CHANTE JOYEUX ANNIVERSAIRE (1974). 1984.

Posted at 10:52h in EPHEMERA

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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01 Apr JAMES LEE BYARS. 1984.

Posted at 16:39h in James Lee Byars

Koln: Michael Werner, 1984
9.4 x 12.8cm, 1pp typographic announcement card for a solo show. VG+.

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23 Mar CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI. (ZURICH). 1984.

Posted at 22:09h in EPHEMERA

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+....

21 Mar INCONTRO CON BEUYS. 1984.

Posted at 17:09h in Joseph Beuys Cards 1980 - 23rd January 1986, Joseph Beuys Cards 1980s, Joseph Beuys Postcards

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+. ...