14 Aug

Posted at 09:29h in Artist's Books

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
8 x 10cm, 6pp outer folder with an image of a starfish content of 6 8 x 10cm double sided cards.
One initially thinks there has been a printing error as the back of the cards seems upside down but if read in sequence the first side tells the story of a kidnapping of three Naval Protection Officers after a raid on a French trawler - La Calypso - by its crew, with the officers only released after a return to France. Red in the other direction the story of Calypso saving the life of Ulysses and holding him for seven years in her cave.
Finlay always enjoyed a naming co-incidence and the two stories obviously parallel each other in many respects. Small vignettes by Laura Gerahty. VG+

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12 Aug

Posted at 16:20h in Artist's Postcards

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

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03 Aug

Posted at 12:12h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Munchen: Gina Kehayoff Verlage, 1996
21 x 14cm, 64pp plus card covers. Artist's book consisting of 62 b/w photographic images of 31 people showing both younger and older selves opposite each other on each two pages. Minimal text in German. VG+.

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01 Aug

Posted at 19:01h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
14 x 6.4cm, 4pp, The poem (after Louis Zukofsky) is

AFTER LZ
BR> an
other

in
equality

wild

flower

The pairs of words when conjoined change the meaning to the opposite - which is also true of the last two words which are spaced apart to make the pairing less obvious. VG+.

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24 Jul

Posted at 18:15h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
7.7 x 7cm, 4pp, outer folder with an internal tipped in 14.3 x 6cm (open size) sheet with the word Daisy repeated seven times in different type fonts. Literally making a daisy chain. VG+.

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14 Jul

Posted at 09:39h in Artist's Books

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
11 x 10.5cm, 12pp with card covers and printed dust jacket. Three drawings by Hinks show a square of brown overlapped on the a slice of bread (Hovis Loaf), a brick (Hovis Brick) and a sail (Hovis Sail). Hovis is a brand name for cheap commercial brown bread in the UK - the brown square reminding one of a single slice. Bricks share a similar colour and one assumes so do sails.

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03 Jul

Posted at 15:16h in Object + Paper Multiples

Edinburgh: City of Edinburgh Museums and Galleries, 1996
Two sheets of cinderella stamps - each 14,5 x 13cm, consisting of 12 stamps with designs by Finlay and Gary Hincks issued separately from the book (stamp album) "The Illustrated Stamp Album for Postage Stamps of the World: Imagined Lands; Vol. XIV Scotland." > The book was issued in 500 copies but some of the stamps were available separately. The brown 35p stamp -HARVESTER- shows a wooden old fashioned fish box (where fish are sold at market from) and the blue 1 euro - GLEAMER - shows a more modern plastic version of the same box. The move from the traditional to the new reflects the change in marItime law that took place when the UK entered the European Union.
Finlay did cards and also an unique work based on these boat names and registration numbers. PD is Peterhead and B is Belfast.

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20 Jun

Posted at 13:19h in EPHEMERA

Munchen: Galerie Bernd Kluser, 1996 21 x 10.5, 4pp announcement card printed on transparent paper. The front of the card is an appropriated vintage image of two middle age people on a fairground slide. Gluck auf is apparently a regional greeting in parts of Germany (originally used by miners). VG+. ...

21 May

Posted at 16:35h in Artist's Books

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
9 x 9cm, 8pp plus card wrappers. Artist's book which shows abstracted images of sails with different colours and shapes of the reef ropes (the ties that allow sails to be pulled together to reduce the area hitting the wind. On the double pages here, the paper becomes the sail. These were also prints issued by Finlay and also an exhibition. VG+.

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28 Apr

Posted at 15:53h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
18.5 x 12cm, 4pp black on cream artist's card. Internally a poem is a loose translation/adaption from Heideggert's Aus der Erfahrung des Denkens a book about poetry and philosophy. Finlay points to the joys and inspirations one can take from the ordinary.
The Echoes Series are writings or poems by Finlay that use another work as a starting point to expand on the original or detourn it. VG+.

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13 Mar

Posted at 21:05h in Artist's Books

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
6.5 x 9cm, printed custom folder content of 10 6.5 x 9cm, 1pp black on deep blue cards. Each card has a epigram by Finlay on it:
"5. The sail and the keel practice dialectic."<BR< This sentence brings Hegelian dialectics into the consideration of a boat - the keel is at the bottom of the boat, the sail at the top, one keeps the baot upright, the other pushes it along. One without the other would have no effect - the synthesis of the two creates a journey.
All fine in like folder.

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02 Mar

Posted at 15:12h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
10 x 6.8cm printed manilla envelope content of a 9.8 x 6.6cm, 2pp black on green card with texts on both sides which are quotations from others to which Finlay has added text. The first discusses the meaning of PAN to the Greeks - the final part of which notes Arcady to be the "homeland of the Panzer divisions" a common Finlay trope. The other text discusses the Poussin painting ARCADIAN SHEPHERDS - Finlay's addition claims the words on the tomb to be VIRTUE and TERROR (from the French revolution) instead of the original "Et in Arcadia ego". The latter another common Finlay theme. Both VG+.

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