03 Oct

Posted at 17:22h in Photographs, Uncategorised

Edinburgh: Ronald Gunn, n.d. (1969) 38 x 30.5cm, b/w silver gelatine photographic print displaying a Ian Hamilton Finlay sculpture installed in Pittencrieff Park, Dunfermline, in 1969. The photograph shows a different version of the KY sculpture where the KY stands for a boat (being the code for Kirkcaldy) and the number 365, the days in the year. Additionally nearby tree trunks symbolise the masts of boats - the landscape being therefore compared with a seascape. This is one of a number of editioned photographs Finlay issued with Gunn. The back of the print has the photographer's copyright stamp. Some soft creases to the large sheet and one small diagonal crease bottom right (not affecting image) else VG. Scarce. ...

03 Oct

Posted at 17:19h in Photographs, Uncategorised

Edinburgh: Ronald Gunn, n.d. (1969) 20 x 25.5cm, b/w silver gelatine photographic print displaying a Ian Hamilton Finlay sculpture (in extreme closeup) installed in Pittencrieff Park, Dunfermline, in 1969. This is one of a number of editioned photographs Finlay issued with Gunn. The back of the print has the photographer's copyright stamp. Some soft creases to the large sheet and one small diagonal crease bottom right (not affecting image) else VG. Scarce. ...

03 Oct

Posted at 17:14h in Photographs, Uncategorised

Edinburgh: Ronald Gunn, n.d. (1969) 38 x 30.5cm, b/w silver gelatine photographic print displaying a Ian Hamilton Finlay sculpture installed in Pittencrieff Park, Dunfermline, in 1969. This is one of a number of editioned photographs Finlay issued with Gunn. The back of the print has the photographer's copyright stamp. Some soft creases to the large sheet and one small diagonal crease bottom right (not affecting image) else VG. Scarce. ...

03 Oct

Posted at 16:22h in Page Works & Contributions

Exeter: Form Magazine, 1969 24 x 24cm, 36pp (self cover). This single number from series of magazines edited by Philip Steadman, Mike Weaver and Stephen Bann - here the tenth number which contains an article by Bann - "The Aesthetic of Ian Hamilton Finlay" which reproduces 6 b/w images by Ronald Gunn and two b/w lithogr[ahs. The number also has an article on Jiri Valoch. VG+. ...

27 Sep

Posted at 13:54h in James Lee Byars

Antwerpen: A 37 90 89, 1969 21 x 15cm, 1pp printed red on white paper. The typographic design announcement of Broodthaer's Museum Voor Moderne Kunst Department des Aigles Section XVII E along with the performance by James Lee Byars of "This is the Ghost of James Lee Byars Calling" on the 5th October 1969 which lasted from 1pm until 7pm. This performance pre-dated the work being recreated and eveolved at the Eugenia Butler gallery in the same year (the first involved an entirely dark room, the Los Angeles recreation a room entirely decked in red. One slight ink mark next to the Broodthaers' listing else VG+. Very scarce....

19 Sep

Posted at 10:10h in Artist's Books

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1969
12.5 x 10.2cm, single sheet of dark blue card accordion folded six times to make 14 panels. Each panel has a line drawing which is unusually not credited so perhaps appropriated from another publication. Each boat is dedicated to a friend or enemy such that one can discern Finlay's opinion of them or a wry comment on their character.

A Boat, for Bob Cobbing*
Barking Fish-Carrier

Cobbing as Finlay notes here with the * was a sound poet in the London poetry scene. Of course the entire literary scene might well be a "boatyard" of ever moving figures b(c)obbing here and there.
Murray has placed this item as an artist's book but it could easily be re-catagorised as a folding card but for ease of reference we have decided to keep in as an "artist's book" in our listings.

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22 Aug

Posted at 09:36h in Prints + Posters

Woodchester: Openings Press, n.d. 1969
48 x 48cm, blue and brown on thin card - a proof copy of a concrete poetry work which offers a made up headline which is more or less a joke. The text being set on a round baseline reflects the fictitious race being "round the bay".
Possibly unique in form on this paper, this was an early text proof of a page created with John Furnival as part of his later published Portfolio (see listing elsewhere). VG+.

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17 Aug

Posted at 18:14h in James Lee Byars

Antwerpen: Wide White Space, 1969<BR> 28 x 21.4cm, 1pp black on pink paper. A single offprinted sheet (not cut out) of a page from Byars' first ever book (1,000,000 minutes or the big sample of Byars or 1/2 an autobiography or the first paper of philosophy) with the title text "Baby Baudelaire" in the artist's facsimile hand. Folded and sent out by the Wide White Space gallery presumably to promote the book. Not found in any Byars reference. VG+. JOINT: Antwerpen: Wide White Space, 1969<BR> 12.5 x 15.5cm, white printed envelope with the address of the gallery top right on the front. This is a hand-written and franked item but in VG+ condition although there are two tiny holes for a past staple apparent at the top. Scarce if admittedly entirely ephemeral....

16 Aug

Posted at 11:32h in Artist's Postcards

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1969
16.5 x 12cm, 2pp. The card has a reproduced drawing by Margot Sandeman of boats and overlaid is a text which lists nine names of boats. The names are all middle class girl's names and Finlay has designated them as an "Homage to John Betjeman" a poet who often muses on unrequited love affairs with pretty girls . (Betjemin reputedly also said on this death bed: "I wish I'd had more sex." but that could be untrue but it does hint at the longing after flesh that these names infer.
POINT-TO-POINT is a form of racing in both horse racing and sailing. It hints at competition, young women on horseback and love as a competition.
Murray has this as Card 4.19. ...

15 Aug

Posted at 23:54h in Joseph Beuys Postcards

Berlin: Galerie Rene Block, 1969 15 x 10.5cm, 1pp announcement card with a b/w image of Beuys' work outside the gallery (the "double spade" was previously used as part of the 24 Studen aktion in 1965). Blockade '69 was a group show in the famous gallery which included Joseph Beuys, Blinky Palermo, Karl Horst Hödicke, Panamarenko, Bernd Lohaus, Rainer Giese, Imi Knoebel, Reiner Ruthenbeck and Sigmar Polke each being given a room. Other artists were given announcement cards specific to their participation in the show. VG+. ...

18 Jun

Posted at 22:24h in Artist's Books

Woodchester: Openings Press, 1969
21.5 x 15.2cm, 4pp. A small broadside published by John Furnival's press. The poem by Finlay is illustrated by Furnvial. The poem is made up of eleven groups of three words telling a story: the quay is silent and only covered in snow - then a Russian ship arrives, there are hats, footsteps and songs from the sailors and then the ship leaves port. The final words are Silence. Silence. Snow.
It is after the Russian.
The work was previously published in London Magazine January 1969.

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10 Jun

Posted at 19:15h in Page Works & Contributions

Munchen: Akzente 1969
22.3 x 14.4cm, 120pp plus card covers. Original contribution by Finlay ( diary entries) translated into German. Four b/w plates of installations from Stoneypath and 3 other works in b/w. The entire number of this journal was dedicated to experimental poetry in the UK and includes others such as Bob Cobbing. Stevie Smith, Sylvia Plath, Adrian Mitchell and others. Slight stains to wrappers else VG.

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