Stephen Bann - Unoriginal Sins

REMEMBRANCE. 2007.

paul robertson — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:19:06 +0000

Little Sparta/London: Wild Hawthorn Press/Victoria Miro Gallery, 2007

16 x 28cm, 44pp plus embossed white card covers. Posthumously printed almost to the day one year after Finlay's death, this is an ornate and rather lovely exhibition catalogue which displays ten neon works each full page and with high gloss varnish, other text works in embossed raised text also on highly glossy stock and a short essay by Stephen Bann. Appropriately high production values for the very last publication from the Wild Hawthorn Press. VG++.

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VINTAGE XEROX REPRODUCING A LETTER FROM FINLAY TO CID CORMAN WITH ADDITIONAL POEMS & REPRINTS. 1999.

paul robertson — Fri, 09 Jul 1999 19:33:49 +0000

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INSTRUMENTS OF REVOLUTION. 1992.

paul robertson — Fri, 14 Feb 1992 21:11:38 +0000

London: ICA, 1992

14.5 x 15.5cm, 28pp plus card covers and printed light brown dustjacket. Exhibition catalogue of ten large bronze sculptures most of which relate to Finlay's interest in the French revolution. Ten duotone images are tipped onto pages. The exhibition then went to Yorkshire. VG+. Minimal text.Endpapers have a short musical phrase which (I think) is from La Marseillaise.

JOINTLY INSERTED (AS ISSUED):

14 x 14cm, 8p accordion fold insert with a commentary in English by Stephen Bann. VG>

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INSTRUMENTS OF REVOLUTION AND OTHER WORKS. 1992.

paul robertson — Thu, 06 Feb 1992 15:15:33 +0000

London: ICA, 1992
21 x 12.5cm, 8pp (single folded card). Exhibition catalogue for a late Finlay solo show with three small images of works in b/w and a text by Stephen Bann. One of 500 issued. VG+.

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INTER ARTES ET NATURAM. 1987.

paul robertson — Thu, 30 Apr 1987 13:19:48 +0000

Paris: ARC, Musée d Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1987

20.3 x 17.5cm, unpaginated c. 50pp plus card covers and printed typographic dust jacket. Exhibition catalogue for a Finlay solo show from April 30 - June 28, 1987. the text (an essay by Stephen Bann) is in both English and French with each line printed alternatively but in two colours, green and red,; green for French, red for English.

There are 12 colour images of works in situ at the Kroller-Mueller and Little Sparta.VG+.

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IAN HAMILTON FINLAY. A VISUAL PRIMER. 1985

paul robertson — Fri, 19 Apr 1985 14:14:12 +0000

London: Reaktion Books, 1985
28 x 21cm, 318pp plus card covers. Paperback first edition of one of the largest of Finlay monographs. Texts by Abrioux and introductory notes and commentaries by Stephen Bann with over 370 illustrations, 68 in full colour and 19 in two colours. With by Stephen Bann. Slight wear to spine else VG+.

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NATURE OVER AGAIN AFTER POUSSIN. 1980.

paul robertson — Thu, 07 Aug 1980 10:52:10 +0000

Glasgow: Collins Exhibition Hall, 1980
23 x 12cm, 30pp. Original wrappers with printed dust jacket . One centre page fold out. An exhibition catalogue with an introductory text by Stephan Bann and various illustrations including a garden plan by Albert Speer (who Bann and Finlay had been corresponding with and which was to cause trouble later) and a musical note by Wilma Patterson plus one fold out sheet showing various "plaques" by Finlay in the landscapes. At the back of the catalogue there is a page work by Finlay - white laid paper sheets are labelled MOSS in small type at the bottom then a dull green laid paer sheet has the text "refinements of words" on it. VG+.

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HEROIC EMBLEMS. 1977. ONE OF 50 SIGNED & NUMBERED COPIES.

paul robertson — Tue, 05 Jul 1977 20:31:03 +0000

Calais, Vermont: Z Press, 1977
23 x 15cm, 54pp plus card covers. First edition of this artist's book designed by Ron Costley and with a commentary by Stephen Bann. The emblems are all drawings of military machines such as tanks or battle ships acting as metaphors associated with Greek mythology:

SEMPRE FESTINA LENTE

HASTEN SLOWLY

is associated with a Sherman tank with a flail which was used to clear minefields - hence moving slowly in order to later move quickly.

This is one of only 50 copies signed and numbered by Finlay in black ink aside from the larger edition of 750 copies. Rare deluxe copy. VG+.

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MEANTIME. 1977. FOURTEEN PAGE CONTRIBUTION BY FINLAY.

paul robertson — Thu, 21 Apr 1977 21:23:36 +0000

Cambridge: Meantime, n.d. (1977)

25.5 x 20.5 cm, 80pp. Blue typographic wrappers. A single number of this literary magazine with contributions by John Stezaaker and others but here notable for a 14 page version of Heroic Emblems by Ian Hamilton Finlay with illustrations by Ron Costley and commentaries by Stephen Bann.

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COLLABORATIONS. 1977.

paul robertson — Wed, 13 Apr 1977 17:10:30 +0000

Cambridge: Kettle"s Yard Gallery. 1977

21 x 13.2cm, 30pp plus card covers and printed typographic dust jacket. Design and typography by Ron Costley and essays by Stephen Bann, Douglas Hall, Miles Orvell and Stephen Scobie with a poem "Stonypath" by Kathleen Raine. An exhibition catalogue for a show of works which were "collaborations" with other artists (which is almost all of Finlay;'s works). VG+.

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A CELEBRATION OF EARTH, AIR, FIRE, WATER. 1975. MEDALLION.

paul robertson — Fri, 25 Apr 1975 15:25:40 +0000

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 19975

3.5cm, dia. copper and brass plated aluminium medallion with chain. With a design by Ron Costley (which originally was created for the exhibition Heroic Emblems) of an aircraft carrier with a plane taking off from the deck. The original drawing relates to the USS Enterprise at the battle of Midway where the Japanese fleet was destroyed by the Americans. Finlay sees the aircraft carrier as typifying the classical elements of air, earth, sky, water and fire.
All of the Heroic Emblems showed modern machines (mostly of war) in reference to Classical myths. With original box and 14.5 x 14.5cm, 1pp (folded twice) leaflet with a commentary by Stephen Bann. Edition size not known but very hard to find.

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IAN HAMILTON FINLAY AN ILLUSTRATED ESSAY BY STEPHEN BANN. 1972.

paul robertson — Sun, 02 Jul 1972 11:12:09 +0000

London: Serpentine Gallery, 1977

19 x 14cm, 56pp plus 16ppp b/w plates. Original wrappers . An exhibition catalogue with a long essay by Stephan Bann illustrated throughout. One of the first long essays on Finlay by his long term friend and collaborator Bann. VG+.

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