Harvey Dwight - Unoriginal Sins https://unoriginalsins.co.uk AVANT-GARDES Wed, 09 Mar 2022 16:35:58 +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 Harvey Dwight - Unoriginal Sins https://unoriginalsins.co.uk 32 32 HOT DAY. 1996. https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/hot-day-1996/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hot-day-1996 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/hot-day-1996/#respond Mon, 12 Aug 1996 15:20:49 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?p=47403 Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996

9.8 x 4.1cm, 4pp artist's card with a drawing by Jo Hincks on the front and inside a poem by Finlay:

HOT

DAY


Gary

Vida

Rhoda
Jo


in
boats


12.7.96

The post HOT DAY. 1996. appeared first on Unoriginal Sins.]]> Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996

9.8 x 4.1cm, 4pp artist's card with a drawing by Jo Hincks on the front and inside a poem by Finlay:

HOT

DAY


Gary

Vida

Rhoda
Jo


in
boats


12.7.96

The post HOT DAY. 1996. appeared first on Unoriginal Sins.]]> https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/hot-day-1996/feed/ 0 THE ANAXIMANDER FRAGMENT. 1981. https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/the-anaximander-fragment-1981/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-anaximander-fragment-1981 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/the-anaximander-fragment-1981/#respond Sat, 26 Dec 1981 15:31:48 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?p=22503 Dunsyre, : Wild Hawthorn Press, (1981)

12 x 12cm, 40pp plus card wrappers and printed photo-pictorial dust jacket.

Artist's book where Finlay has placed translations of the Anaximander Fragment (the earliest known extant philosophical thesis) opposite images of a broken classical column and its base found in the extended grounds of Little Sparta (then Stoneypath). The column was of course deliberately partly destroyed as the original artwork. The images, in b/w , were by Harvey Dwight.

The philosophers cited here are Diels, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Jaeger, Weil, Kahn, Kirk, Hussey, Burnet, Lloyd-Jones and Jaspers.

The fragment from Anaximander (600 BC) is a statement about how life has to make way for death out of necessity and each translation has subtle different meanings. Of course, the fact that only a tiny amount of the thoughts of Anaximander has survived into the present day is a mirror of the ruined (by intent) column.

The consideration of man's death is a major theme running through much of Finlay's output - and this falls heavily in the middle of his fascination of momento mori and similar works. VG+ example of a very scarce book.

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