Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1995
11.3 x 14cm, 2pp, Artist's card with a photograph of a fishing boat. The title of the card is "The Annunciation, After Fra Angelico" which is a famous fresco in Florence showing an angel telling the supposed virgin Mary that she is pregnant. VG+. We do not know for certain but it may well be that the vessel's name is "The Annunciation". VG+.
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Hamburg: Deichtorhallen Hamberg, 1995
89 x 60cm, b/w offset lithographic exhibition poster with a reproduced photograph of a sculptural work (See Poussin/Hear Lorraine) in situ at Little Sparta. This exhibition poster is unusually signed in pencil by Finlay under the image . VG.
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NYC: Printed Matter Inc, 1995
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp typographic announcement card for a show of books and objects. VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1995 10.5 x 5cm, 4pp card with a 4pp insert. Two drawings - both concrete poems (or Calligrammes) one the original by Guillaume Apollinaire and the other by Ron Costley after Finlay's instruction. Apollinaire's Eloge de l'arbre has the text: "arbre qui fut la displante par Victor Hugo" - praising the socialist writer (the tree that was planted by Victor Hugo), Finlay's reflection becomes "Abre de la liberte et sa floraison"(Liberty tree and its flowering) a reference to the french Revolution and the symbolic trees shown at the feasts and celebrations. A lovely small concrete work. VG+. ...
Hamburg: Deichtorhallen Hamberg, 1995
30 x 21cm, 7pp (stapled) gallery hand out for a large Finlay retrospective with short texts in German and English. VG+.
JOINT:
30 x 21cm, 1pp floor plan and list of works. VG although formerly folded for storage.
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Kiel: Galerie Sfeir-Semler, 1995
11.5 x 10cm, 4pp, Artist's card with a photograph by Robin Gillanders of a piece of rusted corrugated iron against a wall in Little Sparta under which Finlay has placed the word LYRE. The ruts in the iron look like the various lines of a stringed lyre.
This is in fact an announcement card for an exhibition of ceramic jars, slates, neons and paperworks by Finlay in Germany. For some reason it is been mis-categorised as an artists' card in the WIld Hawthorn Press; listings of artist's card and while it is indeed an original card work we have returned it to the correct designation. VG+.
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Stuttgart: Hatje Cantz Verlag,1995
27 x 25.5cm, 228pp plus pictorial card covers. A major monograph of Finlay's public works issued at the same time as the exhibtion: "Ian Hamilton Finlay: works, pure and political" held at the Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, 7 Sept. - 26 Nov. 1995, There are 95 b/w images and texts in German. Edited by Zdener Felix and Pia Smilig. VG+.
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Hamburg: Deichhtorhallen Hamberg, 1995
10 x 21cm, 4pp announcement card with an image of a public installation IHR HOLDEN SCHWANE/TUNKIT IHR DAS HAUPT on the front in b/w. VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1995
9.2 x 8cm, 4pp, Artist's card with a photograph of a airplane smoke trail in the sky which vaguely resembles a bow with an arrow prepared to fire. Internally there is a quotation from Genesis 9:13: " I do set my bow in the cloud" - which Finlay responds as "contrail". VG+.
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Dusseldorf: Galerie M & R. Fricke, 1995
22 x 17cm, 100pp. Boards and printed dustjacket. Exhibition catalogue of city wide public art curated by Marion and Roswitha Fricke with works from Bogomir Ecker, Ingo Gunter, Shirazeh Houshiary, Kazui Karase, Raimund Kummer, Inge Mahn, Hermann Pitz and Kiki Smith as well as Ian Hamilton Finlay.
Finlay's contribution was a wall plaque "Equality does not consist in everyone being arrogant but in everyone being modest": quotation from Louis-Antoine Saint-Just. There is a short text in German by Marion Frick one the work and a full page colour image of the installation in situ. VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d.(1995)
9.4 x 9.4cm, 8pp plus card covers and printed dust jacket with a line drawing by Gary Hincks of boats on an estuary. Internally there is a "found" text which Finlay has designated as a poem by adding line breaks:
As they slip up the Torridge to Bideford
on the calm of a summer's evening, their
two or three men seem to walk
on the half mile wide stretch of water and
there are only the little islands of hatchways
and the tall thin stove-pipe exhaust shooting
out pulses of blue smoke
to show where there is a barge.
The quotation is from Basil Greenhill's Sailing for a Living from 1962....
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1995
10 X 10cm, 4pp card with a drawing of the ”Cabane” by Andrew Whittle on the front and internally a drwing of the proposed motto to be above the door:
LA CABANE A SES RAISONS QUE LA MAISON NE CONNAIT POINT
The proposal for the restoration of the stone hut in Provence was to be built using the original stones except for the lintel with a variation on Pacal's famous dictum which translates into "THE HUT HAS ITS REASONS THAT THE HOUSE DOESN"T KNOW". Pascal's original was The heart has it's reasons that reason doesn't know. VG+. ...