Napoli: Lucio Amelio, 1981
15 x 21cm, 2pp postcard card with an installation view of the title exhibition. This example is signed in red felt tipped pen by Beuys on the front. Verso publisher's details. VG+ although the red ink on the signature is slightly broken up because of the gloss finish to the card.
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Amsterdam: Der Appel, 1971
23.5 x 18cm, 1pp. Typographic announcement leaflet for a exhibition in Holland.
JOINT WITH
Original mailed envelope (complete with wax seal) Mailed copy.
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London: Anthony d'Offay. 1981 10 x 14cm, 1pp typographic announcement card for a group show of new work by Carl Andre, Joseph Beuys, Sandro Chia, Rainer Fetting, Gilbert & George, Richard Long, Bruce McLean, Nicholas Pope, Julian Schnabel, Boyd Webb and Lawrence Weiner. VG+. ...
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1981
22.8 x 16.5cm, two colour lithograph in printed folder. Design and drawing by Nicholas Sloan.
Angelica and Medoro are two characters from the 16th-century Italian epic Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto. Angelica was an Asian princess at the court of Charlemagne who fell in love with the Saracen knight Medoro, and eloped with him to China.
Angelica had a habit of carving the lovers' names onto trees which the print here reflects - and as the folder text explains, Finlay used their French names so that the accents on the words would reflect the marking on the tree bark. Additionally the image resembles an ex libris or bookmark.
One of 300 printed. VG in like folder.
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N.p.: (Pescara): n.p. (Lucrezia De Domizio), 1981 21 × 15.2cm, 2pp artist postcard published by Lucrezia De Domizio as part of the Beuys campaign “Difesa della Natura” - on the front is a portrait of Beys by Buby Durini. This card is signed in red felt tipped pen by Beuys on the front. Minimal text on the back. VG+. ...
Lyon: Le Nouveau Musee, 1981
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp. Colour photographic postcard showing a Boltanski installation of mobile small sculptures which were shown in highly dramatic lighting. This card has been signed by the artist on the front by scratching the surface of the card. Verso image details. VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1981
11.5 x 15.5cm, 1pp. two quotations placed against each other for humour and also making the point that classicism is not dead and is an important theme of civilisation:
"In the back of every dying civilisation sticks a bloody Doric column" - Herbert Read
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"In for foreground of every revolution invisible, it seems, to the academic stands a perfect classical column" - Claude Chimerique. Claude Chimerique is in fact a spoof figure so the quote is in fact Finlay's response to Read.
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Koln: Galerie Jollenbeck, 1981
10.5 x 15cm, 1pp black on white card typographic announcement card for the title installation. VG+.
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N.p. (Krefeld): n.p. (Krefelder Kunstmuseum), n.p. (1981)
30 x 21cm, 1pp large format card with a b/w reproduction of a drawing by Beuys. No other detail other than the title of the exhibition. VG+.
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N.p. (Krefeld): Krefelder Kunstmuseum, 1981
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp announcement card for an exhibition showing 70 unique works by Beuys. Typographic design on both sides. VG+.
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Paris: ARC/Musee D'Art MOderne de La Ville de Paris, 1981
10.5 x 15cm, 1pp typographic announcement card printed red on grey. VG+.
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Printed Museum envelope hand addressed by Boltanski to M. Berg.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1981.
24.8 × 30.5cm, 32pp plus pictorial card covers. A somewhat rare artist's book which has eight full colour lithographs of water colour paintings of poppies by Ian Gardner on thick paper bound in with titles by Finlay. A rather lovely book the theme is similar to other books where German Panzer tanks are well camouflaged in nature. Here the camouflage is perfect - one cannot see the tanks at all. In a suppliment bound in at the back - Finlay has added numberous epigrams relating to tanks and camouflage.
"Total War prompts a Total War Art."
This is one of only 200 copies signed by both Finlay and Gardner on the last page.VG+.
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