John Nash - Unoriginal Sins https://unoriginalsins.co.uk AVANT-GARDES Mon, 06 Jul 2020 17:10:20 +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 John Nash - Unoriginal Sins https://unoriginalsins.co.uk 32 32 SEVEN DEFINITIONS. PERTAINING TO IDEAL LANDSCAPES. 1989. https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/seven-definitions-pertaining-to-ideal-landscapes-1989/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=seven-definitions-pertaining-to-ideal-landscapes-1989 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/seven-definitions-pertaining-to-ideal-landscapes-1989/#respond Sun, 23 Apr 1989 15:11:21 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?p=19101 Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1989)

33.5 x 48.5cm, printed folder with calligraphic text by John Nash. Content of seven 33.5 x 48.5cm, 1pp lithographs in folder. Each work is one of Finlay's later "definitions" works - the structure being that of a word such as GROVE followed by a poetic definition and then a longer quotation from a classical source using the word in a manner that reflects the definition. For instance:

PEACE n. according to St. Ignatius of Loyola the simplicity of order


War on the castles, PEACE to the cabins
Slogan of the French revolutionary armies.

All elements fine in like folder.

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29.6 x 21cm, green on light brown offset lithograph with a lengthy text with two conflicting etymologies of the word Folly. The first from a National Trust book on Follies which had attracted Finlay's ire for including Little Sparta as a folly has a negative connotations. The second is from the French "folie" - meaning delight or favourite abode which clearly Finlay prefers. VG+>

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29.6 x 21cm, green on light brown offset lithograph with a lengthy text with two conflicting etymologies of the word Folly. The first from a National Trust book on Follies which had attracted Finlay's ire for including Little Sparta as a folly has a negative connotations. The second is from the French "folie" - meaning delight or favourite abode which clearly Finlay prefers. VG+>

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29.6 x 21cm, BLACK on light brown offset lithograph with a series of small digs at the National Trust by quoting the most absurd parts of the "Follies, A National Trust Guide" that had so offended the poet - such as:


ITS REGARD FOR THE ENGLISH PEOPLE

"It's (Berkshire is) the sort of county that given half a chance would impose a toll to keep out the riff-raff, and as such it attracts the sort of riff-raff who have acquired sufficient money to be allowed in..."


Not all of Finlay's quotations hit the mark to be honest and it is one of the poet's worst printed works - spite can create great art but the risk is also that it may not.

Folded centrally in the past else VG.

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29.6 x 21cm, BLACK on light brown offset lithograph with a series of small digs at the National Trust by quoting the most absurd parts of the "Follies, A National Trust Guide" that had so offended the poet - such as:


ITS REGARD FOR THE ENGLISH PEOPLE

"It's (Berkshire is) the sort of county that given half a chance would impose a toll to keep out the riff-raff, and as such it attracts the sort of riff-raff who have acquired sufficient money to be allowed in..."


Not all of Finlay's quotations hit the mark to be honest and it is one of the poet's worst printed works - spite can create great art but the risk is also that it may not.

Folded centrally in the past else VG.

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