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15 Nov IMPROVISATION NO. 1. 1977.

Posted at 16:04h in Artist's Postcards

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1977
6.6 x 21cm, 2pp. A photographic card with a b/w image of a lily pond and the surface pond scum which has been disturbed by the passage of a swimming bird to leave lines in the algae. Amusingly Finlay credits this painterly image to himself, Carl Heideken (the photographer) and an "unidentified waterhen". The image is meant to appear like an improvised painting or even an avant garde music score (if one squints a bit and uses one's imagination) hence the title. VG+.

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15 Nov JOSEPH BEUYS. 1977.

Posted at 10:23h in Joseph Beuys Cards 1970s, Joseph Beuys Postcards

Genoa: Samangallery, 1977 10 x 15 cm, embossed white, red on black announcement card which reproduced a Beuys blackboard drawing on the front with some success (along with an indented Hauptstrom stamp impression). The back of the card is hand addressed to Lucrezia De Domizio and is a mailed example with stamp. VG+ condition. ...

22 Oct IAN HAMILTON FINLAY. GNOMIQUE ET GNOMONIQUE. 1977.

Posted at 09:17h in Monographs & Essays

N.p. (Paris): Hazan, 1977 21 x 15cm, 48pp plus card covers. An early monograph on Finlay from a fellow poet - here with many works illustrated in b/w photographs and reproduced drawings and poems. This was the first book in French to be dedicated to Finaly's oeuvre and Edeline is one of the first to try to tease out the various themes in Finlay's work. The subtitlEs which means Gnomics and Gnomonics refers to obscure meanings and sundials. VG+.
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21 x 15cm, 4pp German textual supplement to the book.

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20 Oct JOSEPH BEUYS. MULTIPLIZIERTE KUNST. 1977.

Posted at 09:19h in Joseph Beuys Cards 1970s, Joseph Beuys Postcards

München, Schulmann & Kluger, 1977
21 x 15cm, 4pp announcement card for various book publications by Beuys with a collage of rubber stampings and signatures and drawings on the front (all reproduced), inside book and publisher details. VG+>

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13 Oct JOSEPH BEUYS MULTIPLIZIERTE KUNST. 1977.

Posted at 15:30h in Joseph Beuys Cards 1970s, Joseph Beuys Postcards

Bonn: Stadt. Kunstmuseum Bonn, 1977
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp b/w announcement card displaying a b/w photograph of Beuys' "Silver Broom and Broom without Bristles" from 1972, verso gallery details. A mailed copy with stamp, frank and typed address. VG+.

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12 Oct PRESS RELEASE FOR IAN HAMILTON FINLAY EXHIBITION AT SERPENTINE GALLERY 1977.

Posted at 09:42h in Letters + Documents

London: Serpentine Gallery, n.d. (1977) 30 x 21cm, 1pp green and b/w offset - the press release for the large scale Finlay solo show at the Serpentine Gallery. Folded for mailing else VG+. JOINT Mailing envelope to Seamus Cooney in Michigan. Neatly opened....

05 Oct JOSEPH BEUYS: TEKENINGEN, AQUARELLEN, COLLAGES, SCHILDERIJENT. 1977.

Posted at 22:29h in Joseph Beuys Cards 1970s, Joseph Beuys Postcards

Gent: Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, 1977
22 x 11cm, 4pp announcement card with a drawing of a young woman reproduced on the inside upper half of the card and on the front an image of Beuys during an action. Internally also museum details. VG+.

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03 Oct LUX UMBRA DEI. TWO JAMPOT COVERS. YELLOW PAPER. 1977.

Posted at 20:28h in Object + Paper Multiples

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1977
16 x 30cm, 1pp black on yellow paper with a design for jam pot covers (the printed paper placed on the outside of jam lids). The design here is of two sundials. The text in latin means Light is the shadow of god. Limitation unknown - this is one of two different designs - the other being on white paper. Murray has this as 7.9 and seems to not know there were two variants.

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17 Sep IAN HAMILTON FINLAY. 1977.

Posted at 12:06h in Exhibition Catalogues

London: Serpentine Gallery, 1977
23 x 16cm, 96pp. Original pictorial wrappers . An exhibition catalogue with an "imaginary portrait" of Finlay by Stephan Bann and various illustrations and photographs of works and an insert on cream laid paper "The Wartime Garden" by Finlay illustrated by Ron Costley (which was also published elsewhere). VG+.

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17 Sep IN WORLD WAR I, MANY SHIPS WERE SUNK BY SUBMARINES WHICH DISLIKED MODERN ART. 1977.

Posted at 09:41h in Invitation Cards

London: Serpentine Gallery, 1977
10.7 x 15cm, 4pp (single folded sheet). The announcement card for a major exhibition of Finlay's work which has the first printing of the cover image on it - which meant that Murray's raisonne has this categorised as an artist's card which we have ignored. The cover shows an abstract in red and blue and references the use of similar patterning on fleet ships during the war (called "dazzle boats") :the joke of course is that this type of camouflage resembles hard-edge abstraction which was in vogue for the 60s and 70s and hence the "dislike" by the U-boats. VG+. very scarce.

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16 Sep APEIROS NR 9. LES VACANCES. 1977. NOT IN CATALOGUE RAISONNE.

Posted at 19:27h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Vaduz: Roberto Altmann, 1977
28.3 x 20.9cm, 40pp and card covers. A single number (and the last in the series) of an artist’s periodical that was produced unusually in Liechtenstein, This themed number is a collection of postcards by Roberto Altmann, Christian Boltanski, H.P. Gassner, Paul-Armand Gette, Norbert Haas, Gilbert Lascaux, Annette Messager and Maria Nevelson which are bound in and serrated to allow removal and use if desired. Boltanski shows appropriated images of a goat, children playing, a girl posing, a yacht amongst other things. The images used here were also released as a stand alone artist’s portfolio also by Altmann also entitled Les Vacances but in a cardboard folder. Flay in her Catalogue of Boltanski books notes that but does not reference this periodical presumably not knowing of it. VG+. Very scarce publication.

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15 Sep TREE-SHELLS 3. 1977.

Posted at 16:11h in Artist's Postcards

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1977
11.5 x 7cm, 4pp. Artist's card with a reproduced drawing of a tree by Bernard Lassus of a tree printed green on white and the text: "TREE-SHELLS. Instructions: Apply ear to Tree-shell. Listen for Lakes." The card can be used to create the same auditory illusion as holding a sea-shell to the ear if cupped close enough - hence bringing the sound of water (lakes) to the ear. This is the third of three cards with the same idea but with different illustrations by different collaborators. VG+

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