GEORGE OLIVER - Unoriginal Sins

24 Oct ARCADIA. 1973.

Posted at 10:47h in Prints + Posters

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1973
30.5 x 61.0cm, two colour offset lithograph with an image (by George Oliver) of a modern tank in leafy camouflage. The word Arcadia below refers to an unspoilt rural paradise.
The Tate Gallery says of this work (and there is little more to add so we quote it here): "In this print, Finlay draws an ironic parallel between this idea of a natural paradise and the camouflage patterns on a tank. There is also an echo of the Latin phrase ‘Et in Arcadia Ego’ (‘I too was in Arcadia’), used by the seventeenth-century French artist Nicolas Poussin in a painting of a group of shepherds discovering a tomb. Like Poussin, Finlay reminds us that death is present everywhere, even in paradise."

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16 Sep NUCLEAR SAIL – SCULPTURE MONOLITH. 1973.

Posted at 09:36h in Photographs

Sutherland: George A. Oliver, 1973 25.5 x 20.5cm, b/w silver gelatine photographic print showing a sculptural installation at Little Sparta (next to the lake known as Loch Echen) of a nuclear submarine fin which Finla compares to a boat's sail. The photo was taken by George Oliver and sent by Finlay to an Italian Collector. Label on reverse and photographer's stamp in red....

16 May BATH ROUNDELS. 1973.

Posted at 16:38h in Artist's Postcards

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1973.
10.5 x 14.8cm, 2pp. Artist's card a photograph of a model airplane by George Oliver. The model by Finlay is a biplane with floats and is floating above a sink of water with the plug in as if it has just landed.
The decals on the model are British roundels - the circular blue, white and red symbols that indicated the plane was a British fighter. The shape of the plug is very similar to the roundels and hence in its own way might be regarded as a decal. Hence the plug might be regarded as a bath roundel. VG+.

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29 Feb PAGE FROM “A SAILOR’S CALENDAR”. 1972.

Posted at 09:59h in Photographs

Sutherland: George A. Oliver, 1972 25.5 x 20.5cm, b/w silver gelatine photographic print showing a page from the artist's book "A Sailor's Calendar" as published by Dick Higgin's Something Else Press. The photo was taken by George Oliver and sent by Finlay to an Italian Collector. Label on reverse and photographer's stamp in red. Dated 29/2/72 in red ink....