paul robertson, Author at Unoriginal Sins

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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06 Aug EXPECTATION. 1996.

Posted at 17:51h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1996) 13 x 9.5cm, 4pp artist's card with a reproduced watercolour drawing of a blue sailship by Gary Hincks and a long "quotation" supposedly from Heinrich von Osterdingen which Finlay dubs "An Alternative Opening" where a young man thinks about a tale of a blue sailboat and how much he would love to see such a thing. In a 1802 book about Heinrich von Osterdingen by Novalis the young man dreams about a blue flower (rather than a boat). The blue flower became a regular reference in symbolism for romance - here Finlay alters the symbolism to that of the sea and long voyagesVG+.

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03 Aug ZEIT. 1996.

Posted at 12:12h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Munchen: Gina Kehayoff Verlage, 1996
21 x 14cm, 64pp plus card covers. Artist's book consisting of 62 b/w photographic images of 31 people showing both younger and older selves opposite each other on each two pages. Minimal text in German. VG+.

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02 Aug NEW BOAT. 1996.

Posted at 19:52h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
7.8 x 7.8cm, 4pp, A drawing of a boat's rudder by Gary Hincks on the front of the card has a poem by Finlay inside:

NEW BOAT
BR> Pintles cast bronze -

Rudder mahogany -
Varnish like ice on
A clear water pool.

A pintle is the attachment for a rudder. Finlay has other works that liken the varnish found on a rudder to ice. VG+.

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01 Aug ECHOES. SERIES: AFTER LZ. 1996.

Posted at 19:01h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
14 x 6.4cm, 4pp, The poem (after Louis Zukofsky) is

AFTER LZ
BR> an
other

in
equality

wild

flower

The pairs of words when conjoined change the meaning to the opposite - which is also true of the last two words which are spaced apart to make the pairing less obvious. VG+.

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27 Jul DROWNED FISH? FEATHER? 1996.

Posted at 19:53h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
14 x 7.6cm, 4pp, A two part poem is illustrated by Gary Hincks with three feathers:

Drowned
fish?
feather

drowned
fish?

Finlay's fondness for minimal changes in word order is here - giving different images - a "drowned fish" (something which is not possible unless you change the definition of "drown") may be a feather that has been mistakenly identified, a feather drowned in turn might be seen to be a fish. VG+.

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24 Jul CHAIN. 1996.

Posted at 18:15h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
7.7 x 7cm, 4pp, outer folder with an internal tipped in 14.3 x 6cm (open size) sheet with the word Daisy repeated seven times in different type fonts. Literally making a daisy chain. VG+.

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22 Jul CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI FACES. 1996. SIGNED BY BOLTANSKI.

Posted at 15:53h in EPHEMERA

N.p.: n.p., 1996
11 x 13.7cm, digital output on gloss paper. A handmade postcard perhaps with a photoshopped collage of "faces" taken from Boltanski works. However this has been signed on the reverse in ink by Boltanski,

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16 Jul MAP OF STOCKTON PARK INCLUDING “HAMILTON FINLAY SCULPTURE GARDEN”. 1996.

Posted at 21:30h in Miscellany

Luton: Stockwood Park, n.d. (1996)
21 x 30, 1pp offset printed green on white - a site map of Stockwood Park which shows Finlay's "Improvement Garden" as an important area to visit. Finlay created for the venue a classical garden in which the sculptures are an integral part of the landscape. Folded for storage and a few ink words written on back including the date else VG+.

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