Analytical Art - Unoriginal Sins https://unoriginalsins.co.uk AVANT-GARDES Wed, 11 Jun 2025 18:04:12 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cropped-nTKdHdZI-1-1-32x32.png Analytical Art - Unoriginal Sins https://unoriginalsins.co.uk 32 32 ANALYTICAL ART: READING, WRITING, MAKING AND DOING. 2013. https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/product/analytical-art-reading-writing-making-and-doing-2013/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=analytical-art-reading-writing-making-and-doing-2013 Fri, 29 Nov 2013 09:59:22 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=36214 Sanquhar: School Press, 2013

21 x 25cm, 96pp plus boards and pictorial dust jacket. Monograph and exhibition catalogue based on the work of David Rushton which was on exhibit in Merz Gallery - including very early works by Analytical Art which later merged into the Art & Language Group. Cotlour images of works throughout and texts by Rushton and mark Dennis & Chris Gomersal. One of only c. 50 copies published. VG+. Scarce.

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21 x 25cm, 96pp plus boards and pictorial dust jacket. Monograph and exhibition catalogue based on the work of David Rushton which was on exhibit in Merz Gallery - including very early works by Analytical Art which later merged into the Art & Language Group. Cotlour images of works throughout and texts by Rushton and mark Dennis & Chris Gomersal. One of only c. 50 copies published. VG+. Scarce.

The post ANALYTICAL ART: READING, WRITING, MAKING AND DOING. 2013. appeared first on Unoriginal Sins.]]> PROMOTIONAL LEAFLET FOR ANALYTICAL ART  (NR 2). 1972. https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/product/promotional-leaflet-for-analytical-art-nr-2-1972/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=promotional-leaflet-for-analytical-art-nr-2-1972 Sat, 04 Nov 1972 10:54:55 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=1723 Coventry: Analytical Art, 1972
30 x 21cm, 1pp. Typographic announcement/subscription leaflet for the forthcoming second number of this conceptual art journal which lists the contents as texts by Atkinson, Burn, Ramsden, Baldwin,  Lole, Pilkington, Rushton, Smith, Willsmore, Johnson and Tate. Slight creases at the edges of the leaflet and former rust stains from some staples that have been laid up the sheet but else VG. Scarce very early ephemera.

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30 x 21cm, 1pp. Typographic announcement/subscription leaflet for the forthcoming second number of this conceptual art journal which lists the contents as texts by Atkinson, Burn, Ramsden, Baldwin,  Lole, Pilkington, Rushton, Smith, Willsmore, Johnson and Tate. Slight creases at the edges of the leaflet and former rust stains from some staples that have been laid up the sheet but else VG. Scarce very early ephemera.

The post PROMOTIONAL LEAFLET FOR ANALYTICAL ART  (NR 2). 1972. appeared first on Unoriginal Sins.]]> ENVELOPE WITH ANALYTICAL ART ADDRESS RUBBER STAMP IMPRESSION. 1971. https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/product/envelope-with-analytical-art-address-rubber-stamp-impression-1971/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=envelope-with-analytical-art-address-rubber-stamp-impression-1971 Wed, 03 Nov 1971 12:28:41 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=1611 Coventry) Art & Language, N.d. (c. 1971)
A DL wallet envelope with a black rubber stamp impression return address (Analytical Art Press/151 Warwick Road/Coventry, England) on the front.

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A DL wallet envelope with a black rubber stamp impression return address (Analytical Art Press/151 Warwick Road/Coventry, England) on the front.

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21 x 15cm, 1pp. Typographic announcement/subscription leaflet for the forthcoming journal which lists the contents for that first number of the short lived conceptual art journal. Slight creases at the edges of the leaflet else VG. Scarce very early ephemera.

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21 x 15cm, 1pp. Typographic announcement/subscription leaflet for the forthcoming journal which lists the contents for that first number of the short lived conceptual art journal. Slight creases at the edges of the leaflet else VG. Scarce very early ephemera.

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30 x 21cm, 16pp (recto only). Original xerox bound by vintage blue plastic slide. An interesting early artist's book by two of the founders of Analytical Art where a self-composed bibliography of articles and books on philosophy and art have been placed together as a "therapeutic” device. This was one of only four such “books” made by the duo (the top right of the front sheet has “4 copies” written on it). Some mild discolouration of the xerox pages after nearly 40 years and some edge wear but else VG. Clearly rare, possibly the only copy still extant.

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30 x 21cm, 16pp (recto only). Original xerox bound by vintage blue plastic slide. An interesting early artist's book by two of the founders of Analytical Art where a self-composed bibliography of articles and books on philosophy and art have been placed together as a "therapeutic” device. This was one of only four such “books” made by the duo (the top right of the front sheet has “4 copies” written on it). Some mild discolouration of the xerox pages after nearly 40 years and some edge wear but else VG. Clearly rare, possibly the only copy still extant.

The post BIBLIOTHERAPY. ONE OF ONLY FOUR COPIES MADE. 1971. BIBLIOGRAPHY AS ARTIST’S BOOK. appeared first on Unoriginal Sins.]]> STATEMENTS NUMBER 2. NOVEMBER 1970. https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/product/statements-number-2-november-1970/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=statements-number-2-november-1970 Tue, 03 Nov 1970 09:11:20 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=1569 Coventry: Analytical Art, November 1970
21 x 15cm, 44pp. Card covers. Second of only two editions of this artist book (both differed) of Coventry student work from the course originally established by Art & Language at Coventry in 1969. Edited by David Rushton and Philip Pilkington. The first edition of Statements was published in January 1970. Comprising short texts describing and discussing different art projects carried out by Analytical Art before joining A&L. The works include sections of two works since lost or destroyed - Noisy Channel Chair 1 (1969) where a found chair was photographed and then coated in photographic emulsion and the original photograph projected back onto the chair and developed - thus creating a merger of signifier and signified  - and Noisy Channel Canvasses (also now destroyed) where a similar process was undertaken using unpainted canvasses. There are 8 b/w images of these works. Only "a couple of hundred" of these books were printed, very few were sold and they are quite rare. This copy is in VG condition.

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21 x 15cm, 44pp. Card covers. Second of only two editions of this artist book (both differed) of Coventry student work from the course originally established by Art & Language at Coventry in 1969. Edited by David Rushton and Philip Pilkington. The first edition of Statements was published in January 1970. Comprising short texts describing and discussing different art projects carried out by Analytical Art before joining A&L. The works include sections of two works since lost or destroyed - Noisy Channel Chair 1 (1969) where a found chair was photographed and then coated in photographic emulsion and the original photograph projected back onto the chair and developed - thus creating a merger of signifier and signified  - and Noisy Channel Canvasses (also now destroyed) where a similar process was undertaken using unpainted canvasses. There are 8 b/w images of these works. Only "a couple of hundred" of these books were printed, very few were sold and they are quite rare. This copy is in VG condition.

The post STATEMENTS NUMBER 2. NOVEMBER 1970. appeared first on Unoriginal Sins.]]> NOTES FOR THE INTERPRETATION OF TWO MODELS – PROOF COPY WITH VINTAGE HANDWRITTEN ANNOTATIONS BY DAVE RUSHTON. 1970. https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/product/notes-for-the-interpretation-of-two-models-proof-copy-with-vintage-handwritten-annotations-by-dave-rushton-1970/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=notes-for-the-interpretation-of-two-models-proof-copy-with-vintage-handwritten-annotations-by-dave-rushton-1970 Tue, 03 Nov 1970 09:08:42 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=1568 Coventry: Analytical Art, 1970
30 x 21cm, 20pp (10pp printed recto only on glossy white paper) plus white card covers. Stapled. This example is the earliest publication of the student group Analytical Art (written by Dave Rushton and Philip Pilkington) and predates the journal Analytical Art which was published two years later. This document considers the works Exhibited Painting and Noisy Channel and has eight b/w full sheet reproductions of the two works. The first two pages are a text by Rushton and here in this proof copy there are several ink changes (corrections) to the text (mostly typos) by Rushton in blue ink written at the time. This was one of only three proof copies created by the group  in advance of a hardly larger print run of ONLY a 'few' copies.  Fine and unique thus.

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30 x 21cm, 20pp (10pp printed recto only on glossy white paper) plus white card covers. Stapled. This example is the earliest publication of the student group Analytical Art (written by Dave Rushton and Philip Pilkington) and predates the journal Analytical Art which was published two years later. This document considers the works Exhibited Painting and Noisy Channel and has eight b/w full sheet reproductions of the two works. The first two pages are a text by Rushton and here in this proof copy there are several ink changes (corrections) to the text (mostly typos) by Rushton in blue ink written at the time. This was one of only three proof copies created by the group  in advance of a hardly larger print run of ONLY a 'few' copies.  Fine and unique thus.

The post NOTES FOR THE INTERPRETATION OF TWO MODELS – PROOF COPY WITH VINTAGE HANDWRITTEN ANNOTATIONS BY DAVE RUSHTON. 1970. appeared first on Unoriginal Sins.]]> CONCERNING THE PARADIGM OF ART. AN ANALYTICAL ART MONOGRAPH. 1970. ONE OF ONLY 5 SIGNED AND NUMBERED COPIES . https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/product/concerning-the-paradigm-of-art-an-analytical-art-monograph-1970-one-of-only-5-signed-and-numbered-copies/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=concerning-the-paradigm-of-art-an-analytical-art-monograph-1970-one-of-only-5-signed-and-numbered-copies Tue, 03 Nov 1970 08:56:19 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=1564 Zurich: Edition Bischofberger/Analytic Art Monograph, 1970 -72
30 x 21cm, 16pp (recto only). White card covers - with offset title. A text published by Bischofberger from a theoretical document written by Kevin Lole, Philip Pilkington, David Rushton and Peter Smith (formerly Analytical Art and by this time fully regarded as members of Art & Language) which applied Thomas Kuhn's theory of paradigm shift to art (the original theory by Kuhn being a view that revolutions in scientific thought only occurred when sufficient contrary evidence to the prevailing orthodoxy had mounted up and the original hypothesis could no longer explain the physical evidence emerging from empirical studies). It is worth noting that at this time Bischofberger bought a great deal of Art + Language material from the group and published other documents by them including some of the group's rarest publications - storing many of the more three-dimensional works for later resale.  Bischofberger did not print the books himself - rather Art and Language arranged design and publication in Coventry (for free using the University's resources) and David Rushton drove the books over in a camper van to Switzerland (breaking down just on the edge of the city due to running out of petrol and having little money left, Rushton coasted the last mile down hill on an empty tank).

The limitations of these series of books are usually placed at c. 200 but Rushton remembers taking far fewer than that with him and this Analytical Art book was in fact only produced in 50 copies taken to Zurich plus a few retained by the artists in the UK.

That said this is one of ONLY 5 copies which were numbered in roman numerals (this one being III/V) and signed by ALL of the four writers in pencil on the first title page.

Some aspects of the text from this book were reprinted and utilised in the famous Index Works created in late 1972 for Documenta 5 and the Haywood Exhibition. Fine.

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30 x 21cm, 16pp (recto only). White card covers - with offset title. A text published by Bischofberger from a theoretical document written by Kevin Lole, Philip Pilkington, David Rushton and Peter Smith (formerly Analytical Art and by this time fully regarded as members of Art & Language) which applied Thomas Kuhn's theory of paradigm shift to art (the original theory by Kuhn being a view that revolutions in scientific thought only occurred when sufficient contrary evidence to the prevailing orthodoxy had mounted up and the original hypothesis could no longer explain the physical evidence emerging from empirical studies). It is worth noting that at this time Bischofberger bought a great deal of Art + Language material from the group and published other documents by them including some of the group's rarest publications - storing many of the more three-dimensional works for later resale.  Bischofberger did not print the books himself - rather Art and Language arranged design and publication in Coventry (for free using the University's resources) and David Rushton drove the books over in a camper van to Switzerland (breaking down just on the edge of the city due to running out of petrol and having little money left, Rushton coasted the last mile down hill on an empty tank).

The limitations of these series of books are usually placed at c. 200 but Rushton remembers taking far fewer than that with him and this Analytical Art book was in fact only produced in 50 copies taken to Zurich plus a few retained by the artists in the UK.

That said this is one of ONLY 5 copies which were numbered in roman numerals (this one being III/V) and signed by ALL of the four writers in pencil on the first title page.

Some aspects of the text from this book were reprinted and utilised in the famous Index Works created in late 1972 for Documenta 5 and the Haywood Exhibition. Fine.

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Coventry: Analytical Art, November 1970
21 x 15cm, 44pp. Card covers. The first of only two editions of this artist book (both differed) of Coventry student work from the course originally established by Art & Language at Coventry in 1969. Edited by David Rushton and Philip Pilkington. Comprising short texts describing and discussing different art projects carried out by Analytical Art before joining A&L. The short foreword notes the intent of the group to publish this journal twice a year although only two issues came out. The works described include Rushton's 'Event', Milson and Pilkingston's 'Notion of a thing persisting...' Pilkington and Lole's 'Is the statement that "Noland is thirty feet by six feet" an statement about an art object?', Willsmore's 'Identity Mistakes' and Susan Beeby's 'Can I reproduce my feelings in respect of Jim DInes (sic) toaster in John Mitchell' and finally Dave Rushton's "Exhibited painting". Only "about a hundred" of these books were printed, very few were sold and they are quite rare. This copy is in VG condition although there is one brown mark below the front cover title.

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(2 = ALL)
Coventry: Analytical Art, November 1970
21 x 15cm, 44pp. Card covers. The first of only two editions of this artist book (both differed) of Coventry student work from the course originally established by Art & Language at Coventry in 1969. Edited by David Rushton and Philip Pilkington. Comprising short texts describing and discussing different art projects carried out by Analytical Art before joining A&L. The short foreword notes the intent of the group to publish this journal twice a year although only two issues came out. The works described include Rushton's 'Event', Milson and Pilkingston's 'Notion of a thing persisting...' Pilkington and Lole's 'Is the statement that "Noland is thirty feet by six feet" an statement about an art object?', Willsmore's 'Identity Mistakes' and Susan Beeby's 'Can I reproduce my feelings in respect of Jim DInes (sic) toaster in John Mitchell' and finally Dave Rushton's "Exhibited painting". Only "about a hundred" of these books were printed, very few were sold and they are quite rare. This copy is in VG condition although there is one brown mark below the front cover title.

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