Ian Hamilton Finlay - Unoriginal Sins

15 Mar CERTAIN TREES. 2006

Posted at 18:59h in David Bellingham

London: V&A Museum, 2006
9. 2 x 9.2cm, 2pp ornate die cut announcement on thick card for an exhibition displaying works from a wide range of concrete and visual poets including David Bellingham, Thomas and Laurie Clark, Simon Cutts, Ian Hamilton Finlay., Robert Lax, Stuart Mills and others, The card is a recreation of the cover of the 1973 book of the same title designed by Simon Cutts - which is inspired by Malevich and has red, blue plus deliberate crease lines and tied cotton. One tiny mark bottom right else VG.

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02 Jun TOO MANY LAWS TOO FEW EXAMPLES. TWO JAMPOT COVERS. CREAM PAPER. 1977.

Posted at 11:36h in Object + Paper Multiples

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1977
21 x 30cm, 1pp black on cream paper with a design for jam pot covers (the printed paper placed on the outside of jam lids). The design here is based on Saint Just's famous dictum "TOO MANY LAWS TOO FEW EXAMPLES". Limitation unknown.

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09 Jul IAN HAMILTON FINLAY: PART 1. 1970. ORIGINAL MASTER TAPE FOR FILM.

Posted at 14:59h in Miscellany

New Jersey: Sovereign American Arts Corp., n.d. (1970) Large format videotape - the original video mastertape for a film made by the US company - a 24 minute and 10 second interview with the artist and film of Stoneypath. In original pastic box with typed labels. Clearly unique and an amazing find....

15 May POTH (POOR OLD TIRED HORSE) NR 23 DESIGNATED AS “TEAPOTH 23”. 1967. DESIGNED BY JOHN FURNIVAL.

Posted at 16:31h in Poor Old Tired Horse + Broadsides

Stoneypath; Wild Hawthorne Press, 1967
26 x 21cm, 12pp. The twenty-third number of Finlay’s poetry publication - here designed by John Furnival and contributions by Max Weber, Theodore Enslin, Pierre Albert-Birot (translated by Stephen Bann),Ian Hamilton Finlay, Eli Siegel, Gael Turnbull, George Mackay Brown, Edwin Morgan, and Ronald Johnson. This number reverting to the more common collection of poems by different artists. VG+ condition. Scarce.

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