https://unoriginalsins.co.uk AVANT-GARDES Wed, 20 May 2020 15:26:34 +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 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk 32 32 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/four-shades-1992/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=four-shades-1992 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/four-shades-1992/#respond Tue, 12 May 2020 19:27:11 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?p=21444 Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1992

101 x 8cm, 32pp plus end papers and green embossed boards. A proposal offered to Laumeier Sculpture Park in Saint Louis, the book has four paintings by Grahame Jones of leaf-like shapes (cast shades) - the elm, the pine, the plane and the lime. The choice of shades (shapes) comes from a quote by Vigil (a plane-tree was a common garden element in those days as were the three others mentioned).
The work was installed in 1994 and consisted of the four named trees planted together on an earthwork - making Virgil's quotation literal. it is possible to sit under the trees in their shade.

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101 x 8cm, 32pp plus end papers and green embossed boards. A proposal offered to Laumeier Sculpture Park in Saint Louis, the book has four paintings by Grahame Jones of leaf-like shapes (cast shades) - the elm, the pine, the plane and the lime. The choice of shades (shapes) comes from a quote by Vigil (a plane-tree was a common garden element in those days as were the three others mentioned).
The work was installed in 1994 and consisted of the four named trees planted together on an earthwork - making Virgil's quotation literal. it is possible to sit under the trees in their shade.

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13 x 25.2cm, 8pp plus card wrappers and printed white dust jacket.

Artist's book with two drawings of the Japanese planes trying to return to their aircraft carrier which is on fire as a result most had to crash into the seas and the pilots drown. The quotation is "The last honey by the water that no hive can find." from Austin Clarke's The Cattledrive in Connaught" 1925. The Clarke quotation has its flaws - it is the bee that seeks the pollen not the hive so the line is rather reversed but Finlay ignores that (as he does in other publications such as the Black Sparrow Press, publication also of 1982 called "Honey by the water." VG+.

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