Milano: British Council, 1990
30 x 21cm, 32 pp plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue for an Italian solo show - twelve works reproduced in full colour and texts in English and Italian by Giovanni Damiani. Staples slightly rusty else VG+.
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Tokyo: Asahi Shimbum, 1990
28 x 22cm, 152pp. plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue for a survey of British Art for a travelling group show in Japan. Finlay being one of the artist - with four works reproduced in full colour. VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d.
9.5 x 6.cm, 4pp, Artist's card with a drawing of a boat on the front.
Internally there is a list of names:
Elegy
Elizabeth Campbell
Isa Wilson
Charlotte Chambers
Yvonne Risager
George R. Wood
Mary Robinson
William Risager
These appear to be names of boats (the Yvonne Risager and William Risager being built in 1955 according to Fishing News, a publication Finlay often read) . On the back of the card are the boat registrations numbers:
PL56, D, NI20, SD50, A465, BH32, BA110
One presumes the elegy is for lost or ruined boats - but this is the author's speculation. VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1990
11.0 x 7.7cm, 24pp plus card covers and printed dust jacket. One of Finlay's proposals for a public work in Nordhorn in Germany. The proposal is for a large but low lying rusting Cort-en steel sundial near the Vechte river with a latin inscription (to reflect the monastery nearby) that reads "Ex Templo" which means "from the Temple" (ie the sky) as well as "from the moment", there is a proposed viewing point on the opposite side of the water which Finlay intends to stress the inaccessibility of the promontory. The drawings and plans are by Kathleen Lindsley and Malcolm Fraser.
Finlay also appends to the book several of his Detached Sentences on Sundials such as "Clocks scold, sundials preach.". One of only 250 copies published. VG+. ...
Glasgow: Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries, 1990 21 x 14.9cm, 2pp full colour postcard with an image of Finlay's title neon work on the front, verso gallery details. Photograph by Elke Walford taken during the Gresat British Art exhibition. VG+. ...
Edinburgh: Graeme Murray Gallery, 1990
24.5 x 24.5cm, 56pp plus card covers and printed dust jacket with tipped on illustration. A series of drawings by Ron Costley after instructions from Finlay which reinterpret modern weaponry as classical memes. A camouflaged tank is denoted as "GROVE:.
The second part of the book has various relief sculptures which are the same as the drawings in a different medium - a warplane has the word ECHO beside it - the radar being equated to the nymph who was cursed only to speak in echos. The sculptures are by John Andrew. VG+.
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Zurich: Schedle & Arpagaus Agentur fur Zeitkunst, 1990.
10.5 x 15cm, 1pp typographic announcement card for a talk on Finlay's work by his colleague and fellow poet Gomringer. VG+.
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Zurich: Schedle & Arpagaus Agentur fur Zeitkunst, 1990.
16 x 3.5cm, 4pp announcement card for a solo show which has the work Arbre (Tree) reproduced on the front. VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1990)
19.5 x 11.8cm, blue outer folder with a drawing of a swallow on power lines with a 4pp insert with a one line poem by Finlay:
The Sound of a Single Swallow
gathering
The amusing one word naming of the sound made by a single bird being usually associated with a group also indicates the loudness of the sound.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (c. 1990?)
16.5 x 12.2cm, 4pp folder content of a 4pp insert with a poem by Finlay:
FORECAST
'Rain - some
of it
heavy
more particularly
in the glens
of Scotland
where it may
fall as
sleet'
the sound
of calligrammes
The poem about the awful weather in Scotland is rounded off with a reference to Apolloniare's calligrammes and, in particular, his famous version of rain where the poem's words are in the shape of falling rain.
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Little Sparta: WIld Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1990)
8.7 x 14.4cm, 12pp plus wrappers and printed dustjacket. Artist's book where two sentences by Heidegger have been added to by Finlay with a final sentence.
"In the wood are paths which mostly wind along until they end quite suddenly in an impenetrable thicket".
"They are called woodpaths"
and
"They are paths where the heart and the foot walk hand in hand."
The drawing is by Solveig Hill. This is one of only 250 examples. Fine condition....
Hamberg: Hamburger Kunsthalle, 1989
84 x 60cm, duotone offset lithograph exhibition poster with a full sheet image of Finlay's Aphrodite of the Terror sculpture and floating text. An exhibition looking at Finlay's work relating to the French revolution. Folded as issued else VG....