Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1979 19 x 13cm, closed envelope content of twelve tags (each with the word butterfly printed on them) and ties which are to be added to growing plants in a garden to flutter in the wind and hence metaphorically add butterflies to any plot. Drawing by George L. Thomson. VG....
Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1979
19 x 9.3cm, 2pp. A plan for an architectural and garden installation based on the 1967 Finlay poem Cytheria is shown on the front. The various element of the poem are to be planted or inscribed in stone in the garden. Never realised this is one of the very first 'proposals' by Finlay but we have decided to catalogue it as an artist's postcard due to its format.
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Bochum: Museum Bochum, 1979
26.4 x 21cm, 52pp plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue for a group show initially at the Museum Bochum, Germany, and later at the Palazzo Ducale, Genova, Italy. The artists include Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Agnetti, Anselmo, Antin, Arakawa, Baldassari, Bill Beckley, Boetti, Burgin, Ian Burn, Calzolari, Carpi, Chia, Chiari, Fulton, Gerz, Huebler, Kaprow, Kawara, Kosuth, Le Gac, Levine, Mario Merz, Annette Messager, Robert Morris, Nauman, Nonas, Oppenheim, Paolini, Pozzi, Salvo, Venet and Weiner. Each is given a section in the book with one b/w image.
Boltanski's contribution is a series of five photographs "Le Recit du Pere" from 1976. All are reproduced along with a short text in German and italian.
Some foxing to the inside wrappers else VG.
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Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1979
4.4 x 3.4cm, 4pp. Finlay's smallest folding card, this has a line drawing by Ivy Sky Rutzky on the front of a butterfly and inside a text:
A Red
Admiral
or
A.B.
Sadly we cannot identify who "A.B." is.The folding of the small card and its size however do reflect the shape and size of a butterfly's wings. VG+.
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Antwerpen: Ruimte Z, 1979
21 x 15cm, 6pp (single hand-folded sheet) black on grey. A "periodical" from the gallery (Nr 1) which announces a show of photographs of Beuys' Coyote aktion by Caroline Tisdall. Internal to the sheet is a text in Dutch "Coyote: I like America and America Likes me". Mild handling creases and a mailed, hand-addressed example. Else VG+.
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London: V&A, 1979
10.8 x 7cm, 1pp, adhesive back ex libris slip issued at a London exhibition. The drawing by Michael Howard was to Finlay's description. Unused. ...
Heidelberg: Edition Staeck, 1978
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp announcement card to promote the Edition Staeck edition of 200 Beuys postcards in a box. The front of the box is reproduced in b/w. This card is signed by Beuys in pencil on the right. VG+.
. SIGNED BY BEUYS....
London: Arts Council of Great Britain/Serpentine Gallery, 1978
58 x 41cm, three colour offset lithographic exhibition poster with a reproduction of a work "Of famous arcady ye are" - a tank hiding in greenery: a favourite Finlay trope, here with a quotation from John Milton. This was an exhibition that was later exhibited in Wales and used the same poster design. Formerly folded else VG.
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Zurich: Galerie Stahli, n.d. (1978)
30 x 21cm, 1pp promotional leaflet for the portfolio of "Sand Drawings" where Beuys drew directly on the sand on a beach and Wilp took photographs of the works. Issued in only 250 examples with a vial of the sand, four images in b/w are reproduced. Folded for mailing else VG+.
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Dusseldorf: Museum dees Geldes, 1978 10.5 x 21cm, 1pp typographic announcement card for a wide ranging show of surrealism, conceptual art, and primitive art which included Beuys, Reutersward, Kienholz and Klaus Staeck. The card has a blue rubber stamp impression for the Free International University and signed signed by Beuys in red ink. VG+. ...
Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1978
10.5 x 15cm, 1pp. A drawing of a tank in camouflage and in vegetation by John Borg Manduca is overprinted with a jokey "reply card text". The options are:
Thank you for your communication
You will be hearing from us shortly
You are not the only big shot around here
We are getting your range.
Humorous of course, but also a hint at Finlay's combative and defensive view of the world (although the major battles lay ahead in 1980) but by now he had already had a legal battle with Fulcrum Press (which was bankrupted over the issue) and had pulled his work from a Scottish Arts Council show in this same year when he felt insufficiently supported by them. VG+
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Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1978)
5.1 x 7.7cm, 1pp. A fake Erratum slip for the Arts Council of Great Britain where Finlay suggests in their publication - for "mind" read "void". A rather nasty little dig in revenge for what Finlay regarded as a slight when full ACGB support was not given to him in his various battles. VG+
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