paul robertson, Author at Unoriginal Sins

18 Mar CANNIBALISM. 1971.

Posted at 13:22h in Jud Yalkut

Toronto: CEAC: Centre for Experimental Art and Communication, n.d. (1971) 43 x 28.5cm, 1pp black on white offset lithographic poster for a series of events in September 1971 which includw Yalkut's ""Self-Obliteration"" and "Festival Mix"" multiscreen projection. The photograph in the design is alsoby Yalkut. Others included in the festival were Michael Snow with a piano concert, Shitbandit in a performance, a film of Hermann Nitsch's Abreakaktionnesepeil and Willoughby Sharp's "The anchoring of activity; breaking frame"; a video performance. Victor Pisani also performed a "North American Premiere performance'. Folded for storage else VG....

11 Mar THE HARBOUR. 1971.

Posted at 17:21h in Artist's Postcards

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1971
16.8 x 12.5cm, 2pp. Duotone image of a toy boat on water above a traditional form poem by Finlay. The poem begins with the supposition that the boat is real but by the end the sail is being used as a hanky (toy sails traditionally were made from hankies) and the boat "anchors by the water-lily". Finlay had made wooden models especially boats for much of his adult life. Photograph by Dianne Tammes. VG+.
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08 Mar POEMS TO HEAR AND SEE. 1971.

Posted at 10:14h in Artist's Books

NYC: Collier Macmillan, 1971
21 x 18.5cm, 48pp. Original boards and printed dust jacket. First edition. A collection of concrete and visual poetry anthologised from Finlay's other publications such as Rapel, Blue and Brown Poems and Stonechats amongst others. Different paper stocks and printings re-formated for this square shaped volume. Original dust jacket here has some closed tears but is overall VG with VG+ book. Scarce. ...

07 Mar THE WEED BOAT MASTERS TICKER PRELIMINARY TEST (PART TWO). 1971.

Posted at 20:18h in Artist's Books

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1971
12.7 x 10.3cm, 16pp plus wrappers and pictorial dj - artist's book which purports to be a test for the ability to master a Weed Boat. The questions are all jokey and poetic at the same time. For example: "Q. What are the "petals" of the Port of Honfleur?" No answers are given. there are small vignettes on most pages by Ian Gardner.
Part One of the "test" was published in the series "Private Tutor" as issue no. 11 - see the listing elsewhere in these pages.VG+ although staples are minorly rusty

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05 Mar ENTWURFE, PARTITUREN, PROJECKTE: ZEICHNUNGEN. 1971.

Posted at 11:24h in Joseph Beuys Postcards

Berlin: Galerie Rene Block, March 1971 15 x 10.5cm, announcement card with a typographic design for a group show with works by Beuys, Boehmler, G. Brecht, S. Brouwn, Darboven, Dibbets, Filliou, Gosewitz, Graham, Koepcke, Knoebel, Lewitt, Manzoni, Panamarenko, Palermo, Polke, G. Richter, Rot, Ruthenbeck, Vautier, Vostell et al. VG+. ...

03 Mar THE SIGN OF THE NUDGE. 1971. SECOND PRINTING.

Posted at 16:29h in Artist's Postcards

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1971
10.3 x 15cm, 2pp. Red and black on white card with the text "THE SIGN OF THE NUDGE" next to a symbol that could be the prow of a boat or an elbow of a human. A visual pun.
This card was printed twice - this slightly larger version is the second edition and has black writing on the reverse.

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01 Mar THE SIGN OF THE NUDGE. 1971. FIRST PRINTING.

Posted at 16:26h in Artist's Postcards

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1971
9 x 11cm, 2pp. Red and black on white card with the text "THE SIGN OF THE NUDGE" next to a symbol that could be the prow of a boat or an elbow of a human. A visual pun.
This card was printed twice - this smaller version is the first edition and has red writing on the reverse. The second printing has black text and is larger.

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28 Feb FLAGS. 1971.

Posted at 16:19h in Artist's Postcards

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1971
12 x 16.6cm, 2pp. Black on cream with a drawing of various sweets much as one would find on a key sheet in a chocolate box. Some of the sweets however has been given a nautical feel (the rum truffle having a barrel on it being a reminder of how seamen would be given daily grog) or renamed after a boat eg Apricot Jam Boat. Below the drawing is a quotation: "To the initiated they bring almost instant meaning. it is doubtful whether flags will ever become obsolete no matter what advances science may offer." - anyone who has ever had a favourite chocolate (mine is cheery brandy) will know instantly which in a box to snaffle.
The car gives acknowledgment to Simon Cutts who had done similar "Flag" images in the 60s (and which were published in books that also anthologised Finlay). One of 500 printed. VG+.

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26 Feb ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH USED IN CATALOGUE/RECONSTITUTION. 1971. SIGNED BY BOLTANSKI. TAKEN BY SARKIS.

Posted at 21:19h in PHOTOGRAPHS

20 x 12cm, original b/w photograph of the artist playing a pillow fights as if a child. This was one of the original images used for printing in the Catalogue/Reconstitution 1971 artist's book. Signed in pencil on the back by Boltanski. A unique photograph in VG+ condition.
The photograph was taken by Sarkis (as we all from the book).

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22 Feb GLOSSARY. 1971.

Posted at 10:15h in Prints + Posters

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1971 22.8 × 82.5cm, folder with the blue on green image by Richard Demarco on the front with a gatefold opening which in turn reveals the exact same image on the inner print but in a different colour blue on blue.
A view of boats roped up in a harbour displays three or four different types of fishing boat (two look very similar but a non-expert cannot be sure). The registration numbers and letters on one boat can be seen.
The title "glossary" more usually means "an alphabetical list of words relating to a specific subject, text, or dialect, with explanations; a brief dictionary" - one might see this selection of boats - each numbered as required by maritime law - as a visual glossary of sea-going vessels. One of 300 such prints made. VG.

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19 Feb HOMAGE TO DONALD MCGILL. 1971.

Posted at 16:11h in Artist's Postcards

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1971
14.6 x 9.5cm, 2pp. Blue and red on white - the front of the card has the text "William & Rose, with a pair of reefs down" above the blue rectangle bordered in red. Donald McGill was a baudy illustrator who made his fame from creating saucy sea-side postcards, the text on the front hints at that slight sexuality with the "pair of reefs down" hinting at the removal of clothing by William and his Rose- whereas in sailing, reefing is the means of reducing the area of a sail, usually by folding or rolling one edge of the canvas in on itself. A humorous allusion. VG+.

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15 Feb ZEICHNUNGEN. 1971.

Posted at 18:27h in Joseph Beuys Postcards

Koln: Galerie Thomas Borgmann, n.d. (1971) 15 x 21cm, 2pp. Announcement card for a show of drawings by Beuys and Walter de Maria. A Beuys drawing on the front in b/w, verso gallery details. VG+. ...