£20.00
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1995
252 x 14.8cm, 28pp plus card covers and typographic dust jacket. A proposal in book form for the cladding and internal walls and glass of a German bank. The external works are all “definitions” such as:
AFFLUENCE n.
A SHORTAGE OF SACKCLOTH & ASHES.
which is ironic for a bank.
Internally wall paintings of “Evening will come they will sew the blue sail” and also “Wave/Rock” are found. The glass entrance doors have Star/Steer etched upon them.Text in English and German and all works photographed in b/w. The central seven images of the outer claddings open out as an accordion fold-out. VG+.
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