MEL RAMSDEN - Unoriginal Sins

HOSTAGES. 1988. SIGNED BY CHARLES HARRISON.

paul robertson — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 16:11:25 +0000

London: Lisson Gallery, 1988

21 x 15cm, 12pp plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue for a show of paintings by the now reduced in size conceptual art group. Essay by Charles Harrison and four b/w images of the paintings. Slight rust to staples else This copy is signed in black ink by Charles Harrison on the title page. VG. Scarce.

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JAHRESBERICHT 1973. 1973.

paul robertson — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 20:35:43 +0000

Koln: Paul Maenz, 1973

30 x 21cm, 1pp small poster for an annual group show "Annual Report" at the Koln conceptual art gallery - a montage of images from Askvold, Atkinson, Baldwin, Barry, Burgin, Burn, Feldmann, Haacke, Kawara, Kosuth, Manzoni, Pnenone, Pilkington, Poirier, Ramsden, Roehr, Rushton, Salvo, Wery and Art & Language. Folded for mailing else VG+.

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THE FOX. NUMBER 2.

paul robertson — Sun, 07 Nov 2021 22:20:36 +0000

NYC: Art & Language Foundation, New York.1975
26.5 x 21 cm, Volume Two: 163 pp. The second of three journals of conceptual art was published by the first incarnation of Art & Language when the group included later major figures such as Kosuth, and Piper (before being reduced to a much smaller grouping around Ramsden and Baldwin).

This number contains articles by Eunice Lipton, Ramsden, Terry Smith, Lizzie Borden, Charlesworth, Mark Klienberg, Piper, Menard, Corris, Burn, Bruce Kurtz interview with Robert Smithson, Stefan Morawski, Jean Toche, Robert Horvitz, Paul Kagawa, Annson Kenney, Rushton and Wood, Kosuth, Smith, Menard and White, Atkinson, Beveridge and Burn on Donald Judd, Trevor Pateman.

A VG example apart from a split along the edge of the spine. Priced thus.

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JAHRESBERICHT 1973. PAUL MAENZ.

paul robertson — Wed, 06 May 2020 20:15:18 +0000

Koln: Paul Maenz Gallery, 1973
27.8 x 21cm, 2pp gallery handout for a collective show (1973) and announcing the annual publication of the gallery's yearbook. Typographic design recto noting the participation of Askevold, Atkinson, Baldwin, Barry, Burgin, Burn, Feldman, Haacke, Kawara, Kosuth, Manzoni, Penone, Pilkington, Poirier, Ramsden, Roehr, Rushton, Salvo, Wery and Art & Language. Verso - 3 b/w images of works by Manzoni, Poirer and Art& Language. Folded horizontally. All very good + although folded as issued.

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CONCEPT – THEORIE. 1970.

paul robertson — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 16:14:03 +0000

aris: Galerie Daniel Templon, 1970
29 x 21 cm, unpaginated with photocopied typescript in card cover in plastic spine binder. First edition of this exhibition catalogue with contributions by Terry Atkinson, David Bainbridge, Michael Baldwin, Harold Hurrell, Victor Burgin, Ian Burn, Alain Kirili, Christine Koslow, Joseph Kosuth, Emilio Prini, Mel Ramsden and Bernard Venet - with illustrations throughout in b/w. Minor grubbiness to white covers and one slight but long blue biro ink line down front cover - internally VG. Scarce conceptual art document.

85 uk pounds

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WAS ERWARTEST DU…?/WHAT DO YOU EXPECT…?. 1977.

paul robertson — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 10:06:34 +0000

Koln: Paul Maenz, 1977

21 x 15cm, 60pp plus original printed yellow wrappers. Exhibition catalogue for a conceptual art exhibition with texts by Daniel Buren, Joseph Kosuth, Victor Burgin, Mel Ramsden, Terry Atkinson, Mike Baldwin, Hans Haacke. The catalogue is in English and German and the texts are published dos a dos - hence to read in one language the book has to be turned upside down. Scarce. VG+.

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ART-LANGUAGE. NEW SERIES NUMBER 1. 1994.

paul robertson — Wed, 23 Mar 1994 14:57:21 +0000

Banbury: Art & Language, 1994

21 x 15cm, 72pp- plus card covers. Single number of this continuation of the Art-Language journal which had ceased production in 1985. Edited by Harrison there are two essays - "Mistaken Identities" by Paul Wood and "On Conceptual Art and Painting" by Baldwin, Harrison and Ramsden. Surprisingly scarce given it was the last of the series. VG+.

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HOSTAGES. 1988.

paul robertson — Wed, 23 Mar 1988 19:55:27 +0000

London: Lisson Gallery, 1988

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FIRST TRANSCRIPT SEPT 8, 1973.

paul robertson — Tue, 06 Nov 1973 09:53:31 +0000

Coventry: s.p. (Art + Language), 1973

30 x 21cm, 9pp (recto only). Vintage xerox, stapled top left. A textual essay circulated within Art & Language for discussion. The text is a later (probably final) variant of this theoretical text believed written by Ian Burn and Mel Ramsden and later circulated publicly at the ICA exhibition of the group's work. The same transcript was later circulated as part of a further (longer) document which also contained the "Second transcript" and "Third Transcript" so predates that. Original staple is missing top left else VG+. Scarce.

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THESE THREE TRANSCRIPTS ALL CONCERN RECENT WORK. 1973.

paul robertson — Tue, 06 Nov 1973 09:48:53 +0000

Coventry: s.p. (Art + Language), 1973

33 x 20.5cm, 12pp (recto only). Vintage xerox, stapled top left. A textual essay circulated within Art & Language for discussion. The text is a variant (probably an unedited earlier draft because it reproduces hand-written changes which are retained in later versions) of the “First Transcript” believed written by Ian Burn and Mel Ramsden and later circulated publicly at the ICA exhibition of the groups work. An interesting working document. Staple is very slightly rusted and the last page is cleanly detached from the assemblage else VG+. Scarce.

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FIRST TRANSCRIPT SEPTEMBER 1973; SECOND TRANSCRIPT SEPTEMBER 28TH, THIRD TRANSCRIPT, SEPTEMBER 28TH 1973. WITH HAND WRITTEN ANNOTATIONS.

paul robertson — Sun, 04 Nov 1973 11:00:19 +0000

Coventry: s.p. (Art + Language), 1973
10 sheets of 30 x 21cm as issued offset and 5 sheets 32 x 21cm all printed recto. Stapled top left. Relatively unknown Art + Language publication distributed at the ICA show of that year as well as internally amongst the group (with some variation). Very small limitation - the text is by Ian Burn, Michael Corris Preston Heller, Mel Ramsden and Terry Smith and concerns the considerations required in the tasks relating to indexing which reflects A+L's interest in the concept of categorisation which ultimately led to the Lisson Gallery Index Show.Some edge damage to the larger pages at the extremities due to the strangely longer pages employed for the last 4 pages but otherwise very good apart from some browning. This copy has some green felt-tipped ink annotations to the copy by an unknown hand which is almost certainly one of the members of the A+L co-operative. Minor rusting to original staples. Very rare with only a small limitation.

We hold two variants of this publication: one without the second or third transcripts and another without the cover - these seem to have been for internal circulation only although all versions still look somewhat home-made because of the different sizes of the paper. Please enquire if these other two variants are of interest.

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ART LANGUAGE TERRY ATKINSON MICHAEL BALDWIN PHILIP PILKINGTON DAVID RUSHTON IAN BURNS MEL RAMSDEN. 1973.

paul robertson — Sat, 03 Nov 1973 12:55:39 +0000

London: Lisson Gallery, 1973
10.5 x 15cm, 1pp postcard (typographic with the artist’s names on recto) for this the last of the group’s collective exhibitions before the split of late 1973 when the internal contradictions of the the active members meant that only Ramsden and Baldwin would be active members under the title of A+L. Scarce. Fine condition.

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