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27 Aug THE EXHIBITION OF PERFECT. 1980.

Posted at 22:30h in James Lee Byars

Harvard: Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1980
2.5 x 2.5cm, white paper square with the text THE EXHIBITION OF PERFECT printed in tiny typeface in the centre. Unlimited multiple but now very hard to find. VG+.

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27 Aug NUDE. DRAPED NUDE. 1980.

Posted at 15:35h in Prints + Posters

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1980
60 x 82cm, black on white offset lithograph with two drawings by Gary Hincks. The first cruiser is shown in elevation, the second also but with camouflage nettings over the bows. The allusion is to classical portraits of the human form - unclothed and clothed.

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18 Aug COINCIDENCE IN THE WORK OF IAN HAMILTON FINLAY. 1980.

Posted at 16:45h in Exhibition Catalogues

Edinburgh: Graeme Murray Gallery, 1980
21 x 15cm, 20pp plus card covers and printed dust jacket. An early monograph and exhibition catalogue discussing one aspect of Finlay's work. Illustrated in b/w throughout. as well as reprinting excerpts from the New Arcadian Dictionary and catalogue of works in the exhibition. VG+.

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09 Aug “COYOTE” IST WEIDER DA! 1980.

Posted at 09:52h in Joseph Beuys Postcards

Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 1980
30 x 21cm, 1pp offset lithograph promotional leaflet for the first edition of the book Coyote which documents Beuys New York aktion I love America, America Loves me. Badly reproduced but vintage - this has been folded for mailing, else VG.

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07 Aug NATURE OVER AGAIN AFTER POUSSIN. 1980.

Posted at 11:52h in Exhibition Catalogues

Glasgow: Collins Exhibition Hall, 1980 23 x 12cm, 30pp. Original wrappers with printed dust jacket . One centre page fold out. An exhibition catalogue with an introductory text by Stephan Bann and various illustrations including a garden plan by Albert Speer (who Bann and Finlay had been corresponding with and which was to cause trouble later) and a musical note by Wilma Patterson plus one fold out sheet showing various "plaques" by Finlay in the landscapes. At the back of the catalogue there is a page work by Finlay - white laid paper sheets are labelled MOSS in small type at the bottom then a dull green laid paer sheet has the text "refinements of words" on it. VG+.

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11 Jul COMPOSITIONS. 1980.

Posted at 19:20h in POSTERS

Calais: Musee de Calais, 1980
60 x 42cm, three colour silkscreen exhibition poster with a duotone image of one of Boltanski's photographs of toy models. Some pin holes and slight damage to corners else VG. Scarce.

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10 Jul JOSEPH BEUYS SAMMLUNG ULBRICHT MULTIPLIZIERTE KUNST 1965 – 1980. 1980.

Posted at 18:55h in Joseph Beuys Postcards

Dusseldorf: Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf, 1980
15 x 10.5cm, 4pp announcement card for a show of various works from the period 1965 - 1980. The front of the card shows a colour image of the Ruckenstitze eines feingliedrigen Menschen (Hasentypus) aus dem 20. Jahrhundert (taken by Christian Eisenguss). VG+.

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06 Jul ROMANCES. EMBLEMS. ENIGMAS. 1980.

Posted at 16:17h in Artist's Books

Little Sparta; Wild Hawthorn Press, 1980. 14.3 x 8.5cm, c.32pp plus original wrappers. Artist's book with a number of descriptive poems by Finlay which end with a pointing finger as if the artist expects the scene to be drawn by the reader on a blank facing page.

"A statue of Eve reaching up to pick an apple, placed under an apple tree."

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21 Jun KUNST IN EUROPA NA’ 68…. 1980.

Posted at 18:46h in EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

Gent: Stad Gent, 1980 27.5 x 21cm, 204pp plus card covers. The cover has the title tipped on as a triangular printed label. The exhibition catalogue for a major look back at the artistic endeavours of the year 1968 which includes sections on Art & Languages, Beuys, Broodthaers, Brouwn, Buren, Victor Burgin, Cragg, the Red Crayola, Darboven, Dibbets, Dimitrijevic, Fabro, Feldmann, Flanagan, Gilbert & George, Hans Haacke, Imi Knoebel, Yannis Kounellis, Long, Merz, Panamarenko, Paolini, Poirier, Schum van Elk, Vilmouth and Zorio as well as Boltanski. Boltanski's section includes 4 images of installations in b/w. Texts in German by Jan Hoet, Gemano Celant, Johannes Cladders, KJ Geirlandt, Sandy Nairne, Piet Vandaalen, Koenraad De Wolf, Tony Godfrey, Alexandra Beaton, F. Menna, and Albert Kuiper. Slight marks to the card covers else VG+. ...

21 Jun HANDWRITTEN NOTE BY SUE FINLAY TO HARRY WARSCHAUER. 1980. ON MOTORING CHOCOLATE SOLDIER (PANZER GRENADIER) CARD.

Posted at 18:01h in Letters + Documents

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1980
11.3 x 16.6cm, 1pp. A handwritten "reminder" note from Sue Finlay to Harry Warschauer asking for payment of £9.91 for publications from the Wild Hawthorn Press. The card is the Motoring Chocolate Soldier (Panzer Grenadier) from 1976. Some creases from the mailing process.

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20 Jun KUNST IN EUROPA NA’ 68… 1980. STAMPED & SIGNED BY BEUYS.

Posted at 11:48h in Joseph Beuys Postcards

Schepenen: Museum van Hedendaagse, 1968 11.2 x 15.5cm, 2pp announcement card for a major group show which displayed works by most of the prominent artists of 1968 - Art & Language, Christian Boltanski, Marcel brooodthaers, Stanley Brouwn, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Tony Cragg, The Red Crayola, Hanne Darboven, Jan Dibbets, Hans Peter Feldman, Gilbert & George, Hans Haacke, Yannis Kounellis, Richard Long, Mario Merz, Panamarenko, Giulio Paolini, Gerry Schum and others and of course, Joseph Beuys. This card has been signed by Beuys in pencil on the front and stamped with the Free International University rubber stamp in blue. Verso museum details. VG+. ...

18 Jun ANDY WARHOL BOOK & PUBLICATIONS/JOSEPH BEUYS LIVRES ET EDITIONS. 1980.

Posted at 11:11h in Joseph Beuys Postcards

Geneve: Ecart, 1980 10.5 x 14.5cm, 2pp announcement card for John Armleder's press. Notes two exhibitions (in Armleder's facsimile hand) on one side and a reproduced cut up collage design on the other for events by Olivier Mosset, George Maciunas and Peter Moore at an art fair. One central fold. This was a home made announcement card and the image on the back is not well positioned not is the guillotining of the card. Scarce.....