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....
Hamburg: Hamburer Kunsthalle, 1989
15.2 x 15.2cm, 48pp. Original card covers and red dust jacket. An exhibition catalogue for an exhibition themed around Finlay's revolutionary works on the bicentenary of the events in Paris. Eight plates of sculptural works, other images of text works (some translated into German for the first time). Almost an artist's book given the lack of any commentary.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1989 12 x 10cm, 4pp (single folded sheet of card). The text which is embossed (raised) on this card to keep it white like snow reads: Snow, n. a neoclassical precipitation. The drawing (also embossed) is by Gary Hinks. Rather lovely. VG+. Scarce....
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1989
11.6 x 7cm, 20pp plus card wrappers and printed dust jacket. Five drawings by Kathleen Lindsley are conjoined with Finlay's pithy proverbs.
"Temper harshness with tolerance, tolerance with justice"
when applied to the Jacobins (the most severe of the French revolutionary political clubs named after the religious order where they initially met) this can be seen as a plea for moderation. Another proverb reads:
"If you want to avoid the worst of the mud, walk in the ruts."
which also alludes to the moral state of the revolutionary club.
This is one of 250 signed copies which is dedicated to "Ian , with love from Ian" in red ink. VG+.
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Edinburgh: Morningstar Press, 1989
12.4 x 18.6cm, 4pp. Printed letterpress. Christmas card black on handmade paper with the text:
Somewhere in the wood was shining the
little red lantern of Christmas...