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21 Nov POINT DE VUE IMAGES. FACONS DE PEINDRE. 1981.

Posted at 09:06h in EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

Chalon-sur-Saone, Maison de la Culture de Chalon-sur-Saone, 1981
30 x 21cm, 56pp plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue for a photographic exhibition which alongside Boltanski included Bernd and Hilla Becher, Jamesd Collins, Jan DIbbets, Ger van Elk, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Hamish Fulton, Gilbert & George, John Hilliard, Urs Luthi, Annette Messager, Peter Roehr and Ed Ruscha. Unusually each artist's work is displayed in colour but shot from a distance which shows how it is exhibited on a wall,
Boltanski's work are two photographs from the Composition Grotesques series. An extract from an artist's interview is reprinted at the back of the catalogue (from 1977). VG+.

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16 Oct RHINE WATER POLUTED (sic). 1981.

Köln: Galerie Holtmann, 1981 10.4 x 14.8cm, 2pp announcement card for the title edition released in only 24 examples after the Rhein-Aktion by Nicolas Uriburu and Beuys. An image of the multiple bottle of poisoned water is reproduced on the front in lime green and black and verso a subscription form. VG+. ...

11 Oct JOSEPH BEUYS: VROUWEN. 1981.

Posted at 09:09h in Joseph Beuys Cards 1980 - 23rd January 1986, Joseph Beuys Cards 1980s, Joseph Beuys Postcards

Nijmeegs: Nijmeegs Museum, 1981
10.5 x 17.2cm, 4pp announcement card which has a reproduction of a drawing of a woman inside - all of the drawings exhibition were of women. VG+.

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09 Sep FETTKISTE. 1981. WITH SIGNED LATER NOTE (1997) BY KLAUS STAECK.

Posted at 20:02h in Joseph Beuys Cards 1980 - 23rd January 1986, Joseph Beuys Cards 1980s, Joseph Beuys Postcards

Heidelberg: Edition Staeck, 1981
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp. Original postcard edition by Beuys issued as part of the "Originalgrafik - Series D" in 1981 but later overwritten by Klaus Staeck in 1997 (it is dated by hand as 9.9.97)with a note about copies of the Honeypumpe work being available for 20DM and with a blue rubber stamp impression with Edition Staecks' address. Signed by Staeck in black ink.

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21 Aug ARCADIAN GLIDERS. 1981.

Posted at 11:13h in Object + Paper Multiples

London: White Lies Publications, 1981
21 x 15 x 1cm, two part printed green box content of a bag of elastic bands, nine silkscreen prints of different Arcadian glider kits (each 21 x 15cm, 1pp) and an instruction booklet.
"Each airplane is embellished with a military decal and the name of an appropriate common garden feature has been printed on the rear wing. When the airplanes have been constructed, they may either be displayed together as a squadron or, if you have access to a garden, they should be carefully placed in the relevant spot to act as markers or name tags and a pleasing focus of interest for when the flowers are out of season." (I
An unusual garden multiple published by Steve Wheatley's small press. VG+ in like box.

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09 Aug THREE BEUYS’S POSTCARDS IN POSTCARDS BY TONY CRAGG NINO LONGOBARDI MIMMO PALADINO JOSEPH BEUYS ERNESTO TATAFIORE DAVID SALLE. 1980/81. ONE BEUYS CARD & ENVELOPE IS SIGNED & STAMPED.

Posted at 09:28h in Joseph Beuys Cards 1980 - 23rd January 1986, Joseph Beuys Cards 1980s, Joseph Beuys Postcards

Napoli: Lucio Amelio, 1980/1981
20.5 x 14.5cm, printed manilla envelope content of twelve artist designed postcards by Cragg, Longobardi, Paladino, Tatfiore and Salle alongside three postcards by Beuys. Beuys' contributions are two b/w images of the installation Terremoto in Palazzo (1981) and a drawing from the same work - the card of which is signed in red felt tipped pen by Beuys. All VG+ in a printed envelope which has been signed and stamped by Beuys. Scarce. Not in Schellmann.

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21 May TASCHENBUCH DER PANZER. 1981. ONE OF 200 COPIES SIGNED BY BOTH FINLAY & GARDNER.

Posted at 13:49h in Artist's Books

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1981.
24.8 × 30.5cm, 32pp plus pictorial card covers. A somewhat rare artist's book which has eight full colour lithographs of water colour paintings of poppies by Ian Gardner on thick paper bound in with titles by Finlay. A rather lovely book the theme is similar to other books where German Panzer tanks are well camouflaged in nature. Here the camouflage is perfect - one cannot see the tanks at all. In a suppliment bound in at the back - Finlay has added numberous epigrams relating to tanks and camouflage.

"Total War prompts a Total War Art."

This is one of only 200 copies signed by both Finlay and Gardner on the last page.VG+.

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16 May THE FOREST AND THE REVOLUTION. 1981. WITH “A NOTE FOR VISITORS”

Posted at 20:30h in Miscellany

Little Sparta: WIld Hawthorn Press, 1981
30 x 21cm, 1pp green on cream paper - an announcement leaflet for visitors to Little Sparta noting exhibitions in the Garden Temple and "in the Garden". Visitors needed to write to the Press or call a telephone number. Formerly folded but VG+
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Little Sparta: WIld Hawthorn Press, 1981
10 x 21cm, 1pp green on cream "note for visitors" explaining that the Garden and the Gallery have no Arts Council grant or other state subsidy and warning them of possible raids by the Sheriff Officers of the Strathclyde Region. VG+.

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11 May JOSEPH BEUYS: RAUM 3. 1981.

Posted at 10:24h in Joseph Beuys Cards 1980 - 23rd January 1986, Joseph Beuys Cards 1980s, Joseph Beuys Postcards

Bonn: Galerie Klein, 1981
10.5 x 15cm, 4pp black on white card announcement card for the title installation with one b/w image of Beuys' feet standing on a blackboard within the work. VG+.

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01 May JOSEPH BEUYS. 1981.

Posted at 09:34h in Joseph Beuys Cards 1980 - 23rd January 1986, Joseph Beuys Cards 1980s, Joseph Beuys Postcards

Stuttgart: Galerie Achim Kubinski, 1981
15 x 21cm, 2pp. Announcement card with a Beuys sculpture in b/w reproduced on the front, verso gallery details. VG+....

03 Apr DENKEN. DANKEN. 1981.

Posted at 14:56h in Joseph Beuys Cards 1980 - 23rd January 1986, Joseph Beuys Cards 1980s, Joseph Beuys Postcards

München: Kunstraum München, 1981 10.5 x 14.7cm, 2pp exhibition announcement card for a joint exhibition of works by Jonas Hafner and Joseph Beuys created in memoriam for a 19 year old student of Beuys' who had been killed in April 1980. Typographic design only. VG+. JOINT: 30 x 21cm, 1pp press release from the gallery with price details of one work. Text only. Folded twice and with punched holes for storage. Else VG. ...

11 Feb SCHWURHAND. 1981.

Posted at 10:08h in Joseph Beuys Cards 1980 - 23rd January 1986, Joseph Beuys Cards 1980s, Joseph Beuys Postcards

Stuttgart: Galerie Tilly Haderek, 1981
10.5 x 14.7cm, 2pp black on white thin card. Announcement card for a solo exhibition and the release of the portfolio of 20 wokrks by the artist of the same title. A mailed example with typed address - but VG+.

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