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/discussion emphasising the new emerging Green politics. VG+.
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Tokyo: Galerie Watari, 1982 10.5 x q5cm, 2pp promotional card displaying a portrait of Beuys in colour by Alex Kayser. The photograph was issued as an edition of 25 copies by the gallery. VG+. ...
Carlisle: Carlisle Museum & Art Gallery, 1982
14.7 x 10.5cm, 2pp card. One of five cards released during the exhibition ‘Presences of Nature’ - each with a painting by Ian Gardner. Here the illustration shows a ticket in close-up. Finlay's one word poem for this image is "Osiris" with beneath it the word "osiers'. The similarity in the words appeals to the poet and the Egyptian god Osiris was the god of agriculture and by extension fertile growth. Osiers is a type of willow that grows in the wet. VG+.
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Carlisle: Carlisle Museum & Art Gallery, 1982
14.7 x 10.5cm, 2pp card. One of five cards released during the exhibition ‘Presences of Nature’ - each with a painting by Ian Gardner. Here the illustration shows a country landscape at night. Finlay's one word poem for this image is "Curfew" with beneath it the word "curlew'. The similarity in the words appeals to the poet as well as the link between hearing the sound of a curlew (a wading bird) and nightfall about to come down. VG+.
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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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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+. ...
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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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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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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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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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
leaf-boat
cottonreel-tank
cottonreel-boat
leaf-tank
which is illustrated with drawings of bobbins used in toy model making.
One of 500 copies. VG+.
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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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