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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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28 Feb JOSEPH BEUYS SELECTED EDITIONS 1965 – 1980. 1981.

Posted at 18:59h in Joseph Beuys Cards 1980 - 23rd January 1986, Joseph Beuys Cards 1980s, Joseph Beuys Postcards

NYC: John Gibson, 1981
15.4 x 10.2cm, 2pp announcement card for a show of multiples from the period 1965 - 1980. The front of the card shows a colour image of the Beuys Sled from 1969. VG+.

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15 Feb DAS KAPITAL 1970 – 1977. 1981.

Posted at 15:38h in Joseph Beuys Cards 1980 - 23rd January 1986, Joseph Beuys Cards 1980s, Joseph Beuys Postcards

Zurich:INK. Halle fur Internationale Kunst), 1981
30 x 21cm, 1pp large format leaflet with a b/w reproduction of the Das Kapital installation by Beuys. Verso gallery details. VG+.

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11 Feb SCHWURHAND. 1981.

Posted at 10:08h in Joseph Beuys Cards 1980 - 23rd January 1986, Joseph Beuys Cards 1980s, Joseph Beuys Postcards

Stuttgart: Galerie Tilly Haderek, 1981
10.5 x 14.7cm, 2pp black on white thin card. Announcement card for a solo exhibition and the release of the portfolio of 20 wokrks by the artist of the same title. A mailed example with typed address - but VG+.

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30 Jan LA REVOLUZIONI SIAMO NOI. 1981. WITH SIGNED NOTE BY BOTH DEMARCO AND BEUYS.

Posted at 19:58h in Uncategorised

Heidelberg: Edition Staeck, 1972
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp. Original postcard edition by Beuys issued as part of the "Originalgrafik - Series D" which has extensive notes from Richard Demarco and Beuys on the back and a rubber stamped Die Grunen green impression. Stamped, franked and mailed to an address in Cambridge, England. Dated by frank 30/1/81. VG+.

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30 Jan LES ENFANTS JOUENT A L’AVENIR. 1981. COVER BY BOLTANSKI.

Posted at 15:59h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Paris: Editions Galilee, 1981
21.5 x 13.7cm, 174pp plus card covers. A novel by the French author which has an original collage on the front by Boltanski. Annie Lauran was the pseudonym of Myriam Boltanski - the artist's mother! - a fact that was hidden until 2015. VG+.
Reference: Flay Boltanski Catalogue Page 150.

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30 Jan LES CIMETIERES DES NAUFRAGES. 1981.

Posted at 09:25h in Prints + Posters

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1981
20.3 × 16.5cm, black on lilac printed outer folder with title content of a single 20.3 × 16.5cm offset lithograph printed black on blue laid paper with the word "SYMBOLISME".
One of Finlay's innovative colour paper prints (in fact the third such published) where the medium utilised is as important as the printed words, this is a visual poem in some sense that the paper colour of the inner sheet is associated with the out of fashion painterly movement as well as the sea. Moreover - Finlay emphasises a parallel between the memorial graves of dead sailors that have never been found and the death of symbolism which often used death and water as major themes.
Later a public work based on this metaphor was built in the the medieval garden of the Musée de l'Oeuvre Notre-Dame.

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25 Jan JOSEPH BEUYS SUITE “SCHWURHAND”. 1981.

Posted at 13:52h in Joseph Beuys Cards 1980 - 23rd January 1986, Joseph Beuys Cards 1980s, Joseph Beuys Postcards

Wurzburg: Stadtische Galerie, 1981
21 x 10.5cm, 1pp announcement leaflet printed for an exhibition of lithographs and etchings in the Suite "Schwurhand" which prominently feature hands. VG+. ,BR.,BR....

18 Dec A SMALL CLASSICAL DICTIONARY. 1980. ONE OF ONLY 75 SIGNED COPIES.

Posted at 10:56h in Artist's Books

n.p. : Parret Press, 1981
9 x 10.5cm, 28pp plus card covers. One of Finlay's most rare books this is a book of "definitions" where a common word is given (usually a classical) new definition. For example,:

HARE, n. a creature second in swiftness to the tortoise.

One of only 75 copies each of which is signed by Finlay published at Christmas 1981 - this example has sadly had some water damage in the past which can be seen on the outside and inside of the cover and along the inner spine although the texts and inner pages are unaffected.

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27 Nov JOSEPH BEUYS. 1980.

Posted at 20:33h in Joseph Beuys Cards 1980 - 23rd January 1986, Joseph Beuys Cards 1980s, Joseph Beuys Postcards

Roma: Galleria Santoro, 1980 16 x 11cm, 2pp announcement and invitation card for a Beuys FIU event with a reproduced drawing (Kunst = Kapital") on the front and verso details of the drinks event. One slight mark on front of card else VG+....

27 Nov JOSEPH BEUYS. 1980.

Posted at 15:03h in Uncategorised

Roma: Galleria Santoro, 1980
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp. Announcement card with a design of a FIU print on the front KUNST = KAPITAL. A mailed example with written address - but VG+.

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