paul robertson, Author at Unoriginal Sins

07 Apr LANDSCAPE WITH WOODS AND A PILLAR BOX FOR THE POSTING OF BELLIGERENT LETTERS. 1981. WITH LONG HANDWRITTEN NOTE FROM SUE FINLAY TO HARRY WARSCHAUER.

Posted at 17:45h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1981
13.8 x 90cm, 1pp. Gardner's drawing of the titular pillar box (a defensive position made usually of concrete in the second world war) suggests such a structure is needed as a posting box for the letters sent by Finlay and others during the Little Sparta War and other disputes.
On the reverse, there is a handwritten note from Sue Finlay to Harry Warschauer thanking him for putting her in touch with "NK" at Duck Soup, and for his gifts. She mentions that she (they?) are very busy due to changing an exhibition but also because of the "devastated garden'. A stamped and mailed copy but VG+.

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03 Apr DENKEN. DANKEN. 1981.

Posted at 14:56h in Joseph Beuys Postcards

München: Kunstraum München, 1981 10.5 x 14.7cm, 2pp exhibition announcement card for a joint exhibition of works by Jonas Hafner and Joseph Beuys created in memoriam for a 19 year old student of Beuys' who had been killed in April 1980. Typographic design only. VG+. JOINT: 30 x 21cm, 1pp press release from the gallery with price details of one work. Text only. Folded twice and with punched holes for storage. Else VG. ...

24 Mar ART-RITE. 1981.

Posted at 10:03h in Joseph Beuys Postcards

Bonn: Galerie Klein, 1975 17 x 13cm, 4pp announcement card for two editions by Beuys - both copies of Art Rite magazine from 1975 with covers by Beuys. Internally b/w images of the works. VG+....

20 Mar JAMES LEE BYARS. 1981. HAND ADDRESSED BY BYARS TO MICHAEL GIBBS THE POET

Posted at 12:15h in James Lee Byars

Amsterdam: Galerie Helen van der Meij, 1981 10.5 x 15cm, 1pp. Announcement card with the title text (the artist’s name) printed in tiny type on the front of the leaflet. Mailed example hand addressed by Byars to the Dutch poet Michael Gibbs. Fine but some marks from the mailing process. ...

20 Mar SECHS ARBEITEN. 1981.

Posted at 09:34h in James Lee Byars

NYC: Michael Werner, 1981 30 x 21cm, unpaginated (24pp) plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue with ten tipped on colour images of works (mostly sculptures). VG. ...

19 Mar JAMES LEE BYARS IM WESTFALISCHEN KUNSTVEREIN. 1981

Posted at 22:19h in James Lee Byars

Munster: Westfalischen Kunstwerein, 1981 15 x 10.5cm, 1pp. Announcement card printed in gold on black. Fine. ...

19 Mar THE VERY GREAT SEARCH FOR JAMES LEE BYARS. 1981.

Posted at 21:40h in James Lee Byars

Munster: Westfalischen Kunstwerein, 1981 15 x 10.5cm, 4pp (horizontal fold). Announcement card printed in black on white for three performances by Byars in the Botanical Gardens - The Perfect Kiss, The Perfect Cheek and The Perfect Fragrance. B/w image of the Botanical Garden's greenhouse on the front. One yellow stain to inside of card else VG. This design and typography of the card is very similar to that of an earlier announcement by Byars in 1975 in Amsterdam’s Der Appel. ...

18 Mar EXPERIMENTAL MULTUPLEX HOLOGRAPHY PROJECTS. 1981.

Posted at 18:27h in Jud Yalkut

Dayton, OH: University of Dayton Rike Center Gallery, 1981 27 x 21.5cm, 2pp black on white announcement card/mailer with a typographic design for a group show which included Jud Yalkut, Arthur Chaffee, Judith Miller, Ken Nevadomi and Thomas Silver. Folded as issued - an unmailed example....

12 Mar THE VERY GREAT SEARCH FOR JAMES LEE BYARS. 1981.

Posted at 16:52h in James Lee Byars

05 Mar UNTITLED. INSTALLATION VIEW. 1981. SIGNED & STAMPED BY BEUYS.

Posted at 14:52h in Joseph Beuys Postcards

N.p: n.p, n.d.(c. 1982)
15 x 10.5cm, 1pp postcard with an installation view of Beuys' "Das Kapital Raum 1970-1977" (now in Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin). This example has been signed in black felt-tipped pen by Beuys on the front and stamped in red with a Hauptstrom impression. A little creased vertically and two punched holes on the left where someone has stored the card - else VG.

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03 Mar SPIRIT DUPLICATE OF LETTER FROM FINLAY TO STRATHCLYDE CONSUMER PROTECTION DEPARTMENT. MARCH 1981.

Posted at 12:20h in Letters + Documents

Little Sparta: s.p. (Finlay), 3 March 1981
30 x 21cm, vintage spirit duplicate of a reply to Finlay from the Strathclyde Consumer Protection department: Finlay had asked the department to take up a complaint against the Region's own Financial Collection Agencies. The department indicates that they do not regard the "Wild Hawthorn Press" as an individual and therefore refuse to act on Finlay's complaint.
The xerox is a poor copy but legible.

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01 Mar AFTER JOHN FLAXMAN. R.A. 1981.

Posted at 17:20h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1981
3.6 x 11.8cm, 1pp. A drawing by Gary Hincks after Flaxman's drawing/print "Apollo and Diana discharging their arrows" from 1792 is updated where the landscape is now of a war time harbour for U-boats and also part of Albert Speer's "Atlantic Wall". Finlay refers to the U-boats as "classical" in his text and there is thus both a literary and a visual reference to The Odyssey. Moreover, the two gods are referred to as "an Allied air raid is in progress" (the original Pope quotation has "They Bend the Silver Bow with Tender Skill and Void of Pain the Silent Arrows Kill"). The story of how the children of Niobe were killed by APollo and Diana because of her fertility-shaming of their mother for only having two offspring is turned into a story of revenge against the Nazis. VG+.

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