20 May

Posted at 16:32h in Artist's Books

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, (1982)
11.4 x 10.4cm,12pp and printed wrappers.
Artist's book with two quotations from Cholmeley and Burnet from Greek texts - the first is "a line of green among the trees" from Theocritis which Finlay claims is "Land Art in Theocritis" and the second from Empedokles referencing the idylls of Aphrodite as "A Fete Galante in Empedokles". The cover of the book is a b/w reproduction of an unidentified Watteau painting (who painted The Departure to Cytheria). The book ends with a quotation from Sol Lewitt: "One usually understands the art of the past by applying the conventions of the present - this mis-understanding the art of the past." Finlay had created many "homage" works where he celebrated the essence of many artists - this is the reverse, the modern celebrating the past but by deliberate misunderstanding. VG+>

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17 May

Posted at 11:39h in Joseph Beuys Postcards

Wiesbaden: Harlekin Art, 1982 10.5 x 15cm, 2pp. postcard issued in the series "FLUXkarte" by the publishers with a quotation by Beuys on the front. Translated into English on the back (slightly incorrectly) it reads: "If there is a social situation today that is going to kill the earth then one is at the very lowest level of necessity. There is only one counteracting force: Doing the simplest but most important, again provided for live (sic) everywhere." VG+. ...

03 May

Posted at 15:34h in Object + Paper Multiples

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1982
14 x 14.5cm, full sheet with retained margins of three cinderella stamps - the first is KINGDOM OF FIFE - a 1p stamp with an image of four boats on it. The second is ARCADIA which is a 14p "stamp" with a drawing of peas open in a pod and the final stamp is an image of Joseph Stalin with the words STRATHCLYDE REGION above and below and is a 15p stamp. Unused and in near mint condition.

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24 Apr

Posted at 11:17h in Prints + Posters

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1982
30.2 x 53cm, brown and black on white offset lithograph. A painting buy Ian Gadner of a line of boats - all "penny browns". Penny Brown stamps were a mid 19th century postal stamp and one presumes there is a visual correspondence between this delightful maritime scene and the idea of individual items moving to a destination. VG.

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23 Apr

Posted at 18:17h in Letters + Documents

Little Sparta: Saint-Just Vigilantes (Finlay), n.d. (c. 1982)
30 x 21cm, vintage spirit duplicate of public leaflet written by Finlay quoting Saint Just and arguing the difference between a revolutionary and a reactionary and a further quotation by Denis Roche argues that it is the change in language that takes place during a revolution that is truly revolutionary.
Further short texts by Finlay alter a C.H. Sisson's quote in favour of revolutionary action. The leaflet which was handed out at a public demonstration in support of Finlay is "dedicated to the memory of the poet Robert Kenedy". Poor quality of reproduction as issued but else VG+.
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06 Apr

Posted at 21:36h in Joseph Beuys Postcards

Koln: Edition Hundertmark , n.d. (1982).
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp. Artist's postcard with a reproduced painting by Blume on the front. This image was also used in a poster by the artists. A dual performance emphasising the new emerging Green politics. VG+.

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06 Apr

Posted at 10:29h in Artist's Books

Alsbach: Verlaggalerie Leaman, 1982
11.5 x 11.2cm, 20pp plus oversize wrappers. Artist's book containing five drawings by Gary Hincks and poems by Finlay.

IMPROVISATIONS

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which is illustrated with drawings of bobbins used in toy model making.
One of 500 copies. VG+.

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30 Mar

Posted at 16:11h in Prints + Posters

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1982
24x 18cm, folded card with two tipped on images - the first a painting by Ian Gardner of The Temple of Fame, Studley Royal - a wooden "temple" built for William Aislabie in 1770 amongst woodlands and a extract in appears to be a facsimile of dictionary definitions but in fact gathered from various sources by Finlay for the words Dove, East, Fame, Gnomon and Horizon. VG.

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27 Mar

Posted at 20:48h in Joseph Beuys Postcards

London: Anthony d'Offay, 1982
21 x 15cm, 2pp announcement card which has a b/w image of Beuys' Fat Chair on teh front. The Fat Chair was an extension of the earlier Fat Corner works but Beuys saw the chair as symbolic of the human body - hence the organisation of the cold fat into a wedge was reflective of human intervention not that of hard physicality as in the earlier works. Verso gallery details. VG+.

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21 Mar

Posted at 13:22h in Joseph Beuys Postcards

Gelsenkirchen: Free International University - FIU, n.d. (1982) 10.5 x 14.8cm., black and white photomontage by Johannes Stuettgen consisting of two photographic portraits of Elvis Presley and Joseph Beuys and a text after Beuys: “Wo wären wir hingekommen, wenn wir intelligent gewesen wären!” (Where would we have gone if we had been smart?). Beuys' original quote is actually “Wo wäre ich hingekommen, wenn ich intelligent gewesen wäre!” (Where would I have gotten if I had been smart!) from the work/action Arena (1970-1972). VG+. ...

20 Mar

Posted at 16:15h in Artist's Books

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, (1982)
13 x 25.2cm, 8pp plus card wrappers and printed white dust jacket.
Artist's book with two drawings of the Japanese planes trying to return to their aircraft carrier which is on fire as a result most had to crash into the seas and the pilots drown. The quotation is "The last honey by the water that no hive can find." from Austin Clarke's The Cattledrive in Connaught" 1925. The Clarke quotation has its flaws - it is the bee that seeks the pollen not the hive so the line is rather reversed but Finlay ignores that (as he does in other publications such as the Black Sparrow Press, publication also of 1982 called "Honey by the water." VG+.

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