10 Mar

Posted at 19:47h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1994) 12.2 x 8.5cm, 4pp artist's card with a drawing by Gary Hincks on the front. Internally there is a poem by Finlay: <BR><BR> HOSTA FLOWER<BR><BR> An old summer dress<BR> shared by sisters<BR> its purple faded<br> to lavender, fitting<BR> no-one, a thousand<BR> times in the wash<BR><BR> The Hosta Flower is the Plantain lily which invaded America in the 1800s from Asia. Finlay sees the colour as reminiscent of the faded colours of poor families. VG+....

10 Mar

Posted at 11:02h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1994) 8.4 x 6.2cm, 4pp artist's card with a concrete poem internally:


The words:
linen coif in the shape of a cloud l'Ecole re Pont-Aven Hommage a Emile Bernard are placed in the shape of a cloth bonnet with the side ties.
BR> Emile Bernard was a post-impressionist painter who often took Pont-Aven as his source for landscape and town paintings. A linen coif was a bonnet (originally for both sexes but latterly only women wore them)., ...

08 Mar

Posted at 10:21h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d.. (1994) 5.5 x 14.8cm, 4pp artist's car with a text 'Schooner, sail your snows to the Pole." in the middle pages. A monostich is a one-line poem. Here the schooner's sails are being compared with snow because of their colour - and the pun of the word "Pole" indicates a double meaning of the sails being hoisted to the masts. VG+....

27 Feb

Posted at 14:52h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1994
8.4 x 12.5cm, 1pp card printed red and black on grey with the latin inscription that translates to the "the final argument of kings" which traditionally meant a resort to arms, however Finlay wryly notes that :We have noting to add to our previous correspondence" is a modern equivalent and notes it as "the final argument of our rulers." VG+.

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14 Feb

Posted at 14:47h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1994
9 x 9cm, 4pp card with a painting of an archery target on the front and inside a definition:
Arrow, n. a heart seeking missile.
and a quotation about cupid from"Myths" by Bulfinch. Finlay updates the original Greek myth to a modern times where the "heat-seeking" missile is replaced by the "heart-seeking" arrow. VG+.

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02 Feb

Posted at 21:02h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1994
13 x 6.5cm, 4pp card with a poem on the front:

Wild
post.
rose
van

The post and van words are in italics. Recombining the words in different orders gives different images and meanings while the original wild rose and post van are both objects that are red in nature (the card is printed in red on white). VG+.

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21 Jan

Posted at 14:32h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1994
15.3 x 14cm, 2pp card displaying Robin Gillander's photograph of a work in the garden of Little Sparta dedicated to Lorine Niedecker (a friend and a poet published by Finlay in some of his earliest initiatives. The work is hard to read because of shadows.
The image was also used in a book in honour of the dead poet.
This example has been stamped and posted and hand-addressed by Finlay to his son Eck. VG+ with minor postal marks.

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15 Dec

Posted at 14:21h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1993
9.7 x 9.2cm, 4pp Christmas card printed black on white with a drawing after John Flaxman by Gary Hincks of "Sleep and Death conveying the body of Sarpedon to Lycia" - from Homer's 'Iliad'.
Finlay uses the image to add a new legend:
A flak-damaged B-17 finds a friendly escort in enemy airspace. Level contrails are those of out-going USAAF formations.
A previous published card by Finlay also updates a re-working of Flaxman to the second world war.
Sarpedon was a prince in the Trojan war who was killed and sent home for burial with the help of the gods. This example is in original mailing envelope and has the message "happy Chrstmas from Ian in red felt tipped pen over the inner blank double pages. VG+.

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18 Sep

Posted at 10:43h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1993
11.4 x 8.9cm, 4pp card with a photograph variation by Antonia Reeve of the Upper Pool in Little Sparta printed black on green along with a poem:

Cascade

The one
water

sings its
separate

small
pop-songs

as it
falls

A cascade has a double meaning - falling as the water does here - and in music - a descending melody. Finlay finds both appealing. This is apparently a variation of a Louis Zukofsky poem. VG+.

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11 Sep

Posted at 14:11h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1993
17.7 x 6.3cm, 4pp card printed black on yellow with inside a poem:

Folds in its Meadows
melodeon

The homage is to the Russian avant garde painter Mikhail Larionov - one of his works was of an accordion player - the "folds" in its meadows being the billows of the instrument. One of two cards of similar design - the other being for the painter Viktor Borisov-Musatov. VG+.

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10 Sep

Posted at 10:51h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1993
17.7 x 6.3cm, 4pp card printe black on blue with inside a poem:

Balsa & Tissue
TWILIGHT

The homage is to the Russian symbolist painter Viktor Borissov-Mussatov who painted colourful scenes of domesticity. The poem here will no doubt be related to one of the works by the artist - but at this point we cannot identify that work. One of two cards of similar design - the other being for the painter Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov. VG+.

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