Belgium: s.p. (Byars), 1976 A 14 X 10.5CM, hand clipped (b/w offset photograph of James Lee Byars in an unknown performance where the artist appears to be dressed in a costume with feathers along the arms to mimic a bird. JOINT WITH ORIGINAL POSTAL ENVELOPE - A stamped, addressed and mailed example to Thomas Longo of LA. Hand addressed by Byars and with the return address of the artist in Belgium. ...
Antwerp: ICC, 1976 30 x 21cm, 1pp. Single sheet of paper with the title text printed in a single line in the middle of the sheet. The announcement for a performance by Byars - "Action by James Lee byars in front of the I.C.C. on the Meir, Antwerps' busiest shopping street. The proportional analogy between the width of the facade of the I.C.C. and the width of the street, inspired James Lee Byars for this action. Under the watchful eye of Byars, I.C.C. director Flor Bexstarts with the painting of a semicircle on the street in front of the building. The original plan was to give a performance at the exact centre of the halo, but Bex was caught red handed and arrested by a patrol of the Antwerp police. Byars, who had gone "missing" when the boys in blue arrived, eventually gave his performance, under the form of a reception in an unfinished halo.” Leaflet is folded twice in the middle else VG. JOINT WITH ORIGINAL POSTAL ENVELOPE - A stamped, addressed and mailed example to Thomas Longo of LA. Opened neatly....
N.p. (Dayton, OH): Wright State University, 1976 21.5 x 28cm, 1pp b/w leaflet/small poster for an installation by Yalkut. The leaflet design is probably by him also. VG....
N.p. (Dayton, OH): Contemporary Media Study Center, n.d. (1976) 28 x 21.5cm, 2pp b/w announcement leaflet for a "media event"" by Yalkut and the Contemporary Media Study Center involving projections on a 360-degree globelike structure - which was in fact a 60 foot parachute held aloft by a giant electric fan. VG....
N.p. (Madison, WI): Madison Art Center, n.d. (1976) 34 x 26cm, 1pp poster printed black on yellow card for screenings of Kenneth Anger's "Eaux D'Artifice", Levy's "Funeral" and Yalkut's "Turn Turn Turn". The reproduced drawing is probably by Anger. A mailed copy (hard written address on reverse, several folds and minor creases and a few purple and blue marks and scotch tape on the reverse (to seal for shipping)....
=Koln: Byars, 1976 15 x 50cm, white on black poster/banner with title press. The Play of Death was a performance by Byars sponsored by Dr Reiner Speck who reserved the 13 first-floor rooms of the Domhotel Cologne where at 12am on a particular date all the shutters were simultaneously thrown open by Byars and 12 doctors dressed in black. Very scarce. Fine....
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1976)
15.3 x 15.3cm, green on white ceramic tile with typography by George L. Thomson - the various port letters of Scottish fishing boats are placed in a circular design (similar to Sea Poppy and earlier prints) to create a "world" or to remind one of the way stars circle in the sky over time.
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Genova, Samangallery, 1976
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp, commercial postcard of Genova which is overprinted in thick brown paint and rubber stamped on the reverse with the gallery details. This is exactly the same as the edition card (see Schellmann Nr 1880 only not signed and numbered. A rare item in VG+ condition although a mailed example.
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Genova, Samangallery, 1976 10.5 x 15cm, 2pp, commercial postcard of Genova which is overprinted in thick brown paint and rubber stamped on the reverse with the gallery details. This is one of a few known versions of this invitation card where a commercial card was adapted by over-printing with different landscape scenes. Here the underlying card shows a view of Church of Santa Maria Assunta di Carignano, Genoa. Edition Schellmann released a numbered and signed edition of these postcards as an original multiple. This card is a mailed example with stamps and a postmark dated 7-2-76, and is hand-addressed to Lucrezia De Domitius. There is a slight diagonal crease top right but else VG+. Scarce....
Munchen: Schellmann & Kluser, 1976
10.5 x 15cm,1pp. Announcement card for a show of Beuys' lithographs and woodcuts. One lithograph reproduced on the front. VG+.
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Paris: Galerie Sonnabend, 1976
11 x 17cm, 1pp typographic announcement card for Boltanski's sixth solo show at Sonnabend. A mailed copy to M. Berg with handwritten address by the artist. VG+.
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Edinburgh: Scottish Arts Council, 1976
15 x 10.6.cm, 48pp plus pictorial wrappers and bound in errata slip. Exhibition catalogue for a group show at the SAC which not only included Finlay but also Eileen Lawrence, Will Maclean, Glen Onwin, Fred Stiven and Ainslie Yule, the whole curated by Paul Overy of "landscape" inspired art. The cover has a Finlay small work on the front (Landscape/Interior) and 16 works are listed internally as well as two others in b/w ('Homage to Kandinsky' and 'Emden Relief' (a sculpture of a cruiser at Stoneypath). The errata slip has two mistakes of names of Finlay works on it which no doubt irritated the poet. Looking at the catalogue is is clear Finlay is by far the most significant of the artists showing.
This was a show at a time when Finlay and the SAC were willing to work together - later the poet withdrew works from a planned SAC exhibition in 1977 because he felt the organisaiton insufficiently supported him in various disputes he was becoming embroiled in. Some nascent foxing to wrappers and end papers else §VG+. Scarce....