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04 Nov 2. 1999. ONE OF 500 NUMBERED EXAMPLES.

Posted at 02:17h in Jonathan Monk

Stuttgart: Revolver, 1999
20.4 X 15.7cm, unpaginated plus card covers with French folds. Artist's book photographically documenting two dogs in black and white images with one shown on one side of the open fold and the other opposite, followed by a number of blank colour pages. The pairing of two animals may be a nod to Boetti's fascination with couplings (although Boetti's interest was in the duality of twins) but nothing is very clear other than the nostalgia that Monk feels for his own family and their animals although one dog is his mother's and the other a dog that lives in Stuttgart. One of 500 hand numbered copies. VG+.

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02 Nov SO SCHNELL. 1999.

Posted at 09:37h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Kõln: Salon Verlag, 1999
17 x 12cm, 32pp. plus slightly oversize wrappers. There are 30 b/w portraits of young men and women in their teens placed on a graph-lined back ground and their dates of birth with a space for their later death dates. One of 1000 numbered copies.VG+.

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21 Oct LARDER/ORCHARD. 1996.

Posted at 16:46h in Artist's Books

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996

7 x 8.5cm, 12pp plus printed card covers. Artist's book which is printed in green in one direction (Orchard) and once turned around is orange in the other (Larder). The words in both directions are APPLE, PEAR, CHERRY, PLUM, TREE and APPLE, PEAR, CHERRY, PLUM, JAM. The former is denoted as the "Inauguration of the orchard, Little Sparta, Autumn 1999" and the latter "Replenishment of the larder, Little Sparta, Autumn 1999". A small delight. VG+.

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06 Oct PASTORALES. 1991.

Posted at 23:49h in Invitation Cards

Lubeck: Overbeck-Gesellschaft, 1991
21 x 10cm, 2pp announcement card with a reproduction of VENTOSE from 19991 on the front. Verso gallery details. VG+.

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01 Oct BLUE FLOWER. 1999. ANNOUNCEMENT CARD.

Posted at 22:08h in Invitation Cards

Eindhoven: October Foundation, n.d. (1999)
15 x 10.5cm, 2PP. Announcement card for the limited lithographic print by Ian Hamilton Finlay and Cornelia Wieg. Image of the work in colour on front. VG+

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27 Sep HOMAGE TO BEKEN OF COWES. 1999.

Posted at 10:30h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1999
15 x 10.7cm, 2pp, black on white card with a text:

l'invitation
de ce grand
espace blanc

Beken of Cowes was a photographer who specialised in marine photograph in the Solent and around the Isle of Wight. The "invitation to a large white space" is from a letter by Stephan Mallarme - one of the most important of concrete poets who used space to make meaning in his works. The comparison between the poet's work and the photography of seascapes is at the heart of this work. VG+

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18 Sep 1887 1948. 1999. SIGNED BY BELLINGHAM.

Posted at 11:37h in David Bellingham

Glasgow: Wax366, 1999
13.5 x 8.8cm, 12pp plus printed wrappers. String bound. Artist's book with four two-line poems.
For example

shellac-sealed
meadow-saffron

One of a small limitation - this example signed on the last page. VG+.

. VG+.

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18 Sep HELICES. 1999. SIGNED BY BELLINGHAM.

Posted at 11:14h in David Bellingham

Glasgow: Wax366, 1999
10 x 4cm, 16pp plus printed covers. Artist's book which reproduces eight line drawings of sycamore smara (the lobed seeds of the tree which fall to the ground in a spiral manner). A visual poem by the Scottish artist. This copy is signed in pencil on the last blank page. VG+.

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14 Sep A WILD HAWTHORN RE-READER. 1999.

Posted at 11:25h in Artist's Books

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1999
11.5 x 8.6cm, 8pp, plus card covers and printed blue dust jacket. Three appropriated drawings of named boats by Gloria WIlson from as book published by Fishing News are printed below their names and a short paragraph describing the,. The names together read "PROSPERITY/LEAD US 11/AND GALILEE" which Finlay relates to both the life of Jesus and the Romantic poet Christina Rossetti who wrote many devotional texts.
The title "A WILD HAWTHORN RE-READER" alludes to the appropriation of another's work and a re-interpretation of it.

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12 Sep MODEL. 1999.

Posted at 10:17h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1999
6.3 x 6.3cm, 4pp, printed black on blue. A drawing of an American warplane is joined by Finlay's poem internally:

Model

Port aileron down,
Starboard aileron up,
Slight left rudder -
Now it should fly straight!

Finlay describes a way in which an actual plane might guide itself through the air but at the end of the poem one realises the description is really the last alteration of the parts of the model he has just built. VG+.

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08 Sep TEXTBOOK. 1999.

Posted at 19:33h in Artist's Books

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1999 17.7 x 14.7cm, 20pp plus boards with tipped on title label. Internally there are four b/w photographs of stone walls and a wooden wall in close up - each with a name of a type of boat below. The boat name shows an association with the construction of each wall. VG+. ...

06 Sep FZG 76. 1999.

Posted at 10:22h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1999
7.3 x 7.3cm, 4pp, printed black on blue. A drawing of a cherry stone being flicked away by a finger is on the front. On the back Finlay notes that the German flying bombs, FZG 76, V-1 or doodle bugs were codenamed "Kirschkern" - which means cherry stone. These were rocket propelled and once launched there was no control of the missile - much as one find a flicked cherry stone when sent away in such manner. VG+

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