paul robertson, Author at Unoriginal Sins

06 Oct REEF-POINTS. 1996.

Posted at 22:11h in Exhibition Catalogues

NYC: Nolan / Eckman Gallery, 1996
16.5 x 18.5cm, 28pp. Original printed boards. Artist's book and exhibition catalogue with 7 tipped on colour lithographs - one of a boat and the other 6 of patterned images that seem abstract but are different images of "reef knots" - drawn by Gary Hincks - the ropes that drop from the sails allowing them to be tied up and the area of the sail reduced if required. These images were also released as a print portfolio. The names of the boats that the different sails are taken from are printed opposite every image - the different styles make the prints attractive and each is printed in a different dominant colour. Only 350 such books were printed.

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22 Sep STERBLICH. 1996.

Posted at 12:04h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Munchen: Hessisches Landsmuseum/Gina Kehayoff Verlage, 1996
25.2 x 21cm, 48pp plus card covers. Artist's book consisting of 40 b/w photographic images of death. Published in conjunction with a museum exhibition, of the same name. Minimal text in German. VG+ although minor rust on staples.

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19 Sep BIRD-BOX. 1996.

Posted at 16:12h in David Bellingham

Glasgow: Wax366, 1996
10 x 12.5cm, 2pp artist postcard with a b/w image of bird box (on a tripod stand) in a copse of trees, presumably able to be moved by the artist (John Bevid). VG+

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18 Sep IMAGINED LANDS. THE ILLUSTRATED POSTAGE STEMP ALBUM. 1996.

Posted at 16:37h in Page Works & Contributions

Edinburgh: City of Edinburgh, 1962
21 x 15cm, 24pp plus card covers. This is a pretend stamp collection album released at the time fo the title exhibition in the City Arts Centre Edinburgh. Edited by Eck Finlay there are contributions by Ian Hamilton ,Robin Gillanders, David Bellingham, Finlay and Edwin Morgan and others. Inserted inside the book is a paper and plastic envelope complete with twelve small sheets of cinderella stamps. This is complete and unused - one of 500 copies printed but is strangely very hard to find. VG+.

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12 Sep DWARF BEANS. 1996.

Posted at 20:13h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
6.5 x 5.4cm, 4pp. A drawing of dwarf beans by Gary Hincks has a two line poem inside:

DWARF BEANS
BR> The stalks, wrists, appear too delicate
for the quarter-moons and leaves.

Finlay compares the shape of the long thin beans to the waxing or waning moon. VG+.

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04 Sep WORKS IN DURHAM. 1996.

Posted at 09:22h in Invitation Cards

Durham: University of Durham 1996
21 x 10cm, 6pp announcement leaflet with three reproductions of works by Finlay. Internally short text by Harry Gilonis. VG+.

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01 Sep THISTLEDOWN. 1996

Posted at 20:07h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
7.6 x 6.9cm, 4pp, A drawing of a thistledown by Gary Hincks on the front of the card has a poem by Finlay inside:

THISTLEDOWN
BR> the early snows of thistledown

the airy asterisks of thistledown
the clotted cream of thistledown
the distant peaks of thistledown

Four different one line visual poems by Finlay all use thistledown as their essential metaphor. Thistledown is white and fluffy which is somewhat strange given the astringency of the rest of the thistle. VG+.

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28 Aug BUILDING THE HULL. 1996.

Posted at 20:00h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
10.8 x 7cm, 4pp, A drawing of two parts of a model boat hull by Gary Hincks has internally:

BUILDING THE HULL

First plank
this half

then plank
that half

then wonder why
2 matching halves
won't fit

The word plank here has a double meaning - in lowland Scots it means "to place" - hence the poem can be read as either a description of bad design or bad construction. VG+.

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25 Aug PERFECT IS MY DEATH WORD. 1995.

Posted at 15:55h in James Lee Byars

Bremen: Neues Museum Weserburg, 1995 10 x 21cm, 4pp announcement on thin card with the artist's name in his facsimile starry writing on the front, internally museum details. VG+. ...

14 Aug JACOB’S BOAT. 1996.

Posted at 15:05h in Artist's Books

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1996)
8 x 7.5cm, 16pp plus printed card covers. Artist's book which prints four pages of four colours with the letters in a 5 x 5 lattice - GREEN, BROWN, BLACK, OCHRE followed by the same lattice with the word PATCH. Finally the whole is identified as "Jacob's Boat" on the last page. VG+.

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14 Aug CALYPSO. 1996.

Posted at 09:29h in Artist's Books

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
8 x 10cm, 6pp outer folder with an image of a starfish content of 6 8 x 10cm double sided cards.
One initially thinks there has been a printing error as the back of the cards seems upside down but if read in sequence the first side tells the story of a kidnapping of three Naval Protection Officers after a raid on a French trawler - La Calypso - by its crew, with the officers only released after a return to France. Red in the other direction the story of Calypso saving the life of Ulysses and holding him for seven years in her cave.
Finlay always enjoyed a naming co-incidence and the two stories obviously parallel each other in many respects. Small vignettes by Laura Gerahty. VG+

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12 Aug HOT DAY. 1996.

Posted at 16:20h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
9.8 x 4.1cm, 4pp artist's card with a drawing by Jo Hincks on the front and inside a poem by Finlay:

HOT
DAY

Gary
Vida
Rhoda
Jo

in
boats

12.7.96

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