Ian Hamilton-Finlay - Printed Cards
A group of 19 printed cards of various sizes and shapes, which were sent in the 1980's by Ian Hamilton Finlay to Peter Townsend, who had been editor of Studio International, during its heyday in the 1960's. Includes 3 handwritten addressed envelopes, some with extra rubber-stamped exhortations, plus a handwritten note from Finlay. The cards include Thoughts on Waldemar( 15 of the 16 cards, lacking Thought No. 4), The Enlightenment, I Was Published By Jonathan Cape, The Desmoulins Connection (in 2 versions) Barr* Le Traitre Lis Ta Sentence, Mr. Greene and the White Brigands, Menu A La... Read More
Concrete Poetry - Alan Riddell
Alan Riddell, Poet, Artist and Journalist, was born of Scottish parents in Townsville, Australia in 1927. He was educated in Scotland where he founded the Scottish Poetry Magazine Lines in 1952. He worked as a journalist in Scotland, England and Australia. He had his first one-man exhibition of Screen-Printed Concrete Poems, at the New 57 Gallery in Edinburgh in 1971. His seminal books Eclipse, Concrete Poems 1963-1971, and Typewriter Art came out in 1972 and 1975. His Concrete Poetry has been exhibited in many group shows, among them... Read More
Joseph Beuys 1921-1982 - 'Robbe' (Seal)
Colour Lithograph - Artist's proof. 101 x 62cm, Provenance Anthony D'Offay Gallery. £1200.
Vintage Exhibition Posters
A Selection of vintage exhibition posters from the Sixties and Seventies, including Eduardo Paolozzi, Barry Flanagen, Richard Long and Jan Dibbets. £50 - £250.
Theo Mendez 1934-1997 - Works on Paper
Born and living in London, Mendez was a painter, muralist and art teacher. Sometime textiles designer and head of the textiles department at Camberwell School of Art, his abstract compositions place him firmly in the 1950s British abstract vernacular. The work also owes a great deal to kinetic and hard edge abstraction or concrete work prevalent in the 1960s. Although regularly exhibited, his work was changeable in form. This collection of 25 works on paper, recently acquired by Marcus Campbell Art Books, reflect the artist’s broad interest in form and composition and his keen... Read More
Vintage ICA Posters by James Meller
A collection of original ICA posters from the sixties designed by James Meller. Mint Condition. £50 - £250.
Dieter Roth - Gessamelte Werke
In 1969, Roth began planning Collected Works, a self-published twenty-volume catalogue raisonné that would contain, collect, classify, organize, and document much of the work he had made to date. A testament to his ongoing impulse towards accumulation, Collected Works shows the duality of his approach, both chaotic and organized. The books were not issued sequentially (Volume 15 was published first), nor did they present the artist’s work chronologically, but all were the same trim size, allowing for the economical reuse of material at the printer. Individual editions... Read More