ian hamilton finlay wright (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: very good. Ian Hamilton Finlay (ed), Edward Wright, Pierre Albert-Birot, Enrique Uribe, Francis Ponge, Ernst Jandl, Eli Siegel, Tristan Tzara, Herman Hesse, Barry Cole, Jonathan Williams, and Spike Hawkins, P.O.T.H. Number 16, Wild Hawthorn Press, Scotland, 1965. 232 x 165mm, 6pp. Folded and stapled poetry periodical edited by Ian Hamilton Finlay, printed black on white stock. Issue 16 of Poor Old Tired Horse with woodcuts and handwriting by Edward Wright. Contributions by Pierre Albert-Birot (trans. Barbara Wright), Enrique Uribe, Francis Ponge, Ernst Jandl, Eli Siegel, Tristan Tzara Herman Hesse, Barry Cole, Jonathan Williams,and Spike Hawkins. Rare. Condition: dings to three corners, light handling marks elsewhere, overall very good.

Zustand: Very good. 164 x 159mm. Folding card publication created with Ed Wright at Chelsea School of Art, School of Graphics. This is the yellow version. In the print section of Murray's Catalogue Raisonne, published in 1990, the item is listed at £200, giving an indication that this has always been a rare and valuable Finlay work on paper. At that time only blue copies were available: the yellow version is rarer. Ref: Murray 5.3. Condition: some toning and general wear to covers as seen; sunning to spine; some wear to edges; no tears or major stains. Overall: Very good.

Zustand: Very good. Folding card. Ian Hamilton Finlay (with Ed Wright), 4 Sails (red version), Chelsea School of Art, London, 1968. 164 x 159mm. Folding card made with Ed Wright at Chelsea School of Art, School of Graphics. This is the red version. In Murray's Catalogue Raisonné (1990), the item was listed at £200, giving an indication that this has always been a rare and valuable Finlay work on paper. At that time only blue copies were available: the red version is rarer. Ref: Murray 5.3. Condition: wear to top edges, stains as seen to back cover. Overall: very good.

Zustand: Very good. 164 x 159mm. Fold out card publication created with Ed Wright at Chelsea School of Art, School of Graphics. This is the yellow version. In Murray's 'Catalogue Raisonne' published in 1990 the item (in the print section) was listed at £200, which gives an indication that this has always been a rare and valuable Finlay work on paper. At that time only blue copies were available, the yellow version is rarer. Ref Murray 5.3. Condition: toning to spine area, some light foxing to front cover, light rubbing to top edge, rubbing and light handling marks to surfaces. No tears or major creases. Overall very good/very good+.

POOR.OLD.TIRED.HORSE. Numbers 9-25,1961 -1967 - all original. 17 issues in total. Edited by Ian Hamilton Finlay, POOR.OLD.TIRED.HORSE. is seen as the most important concrete poetry journal of the 1960s in Britain. The journal title comes from Robert Creeley's poem "Please" (1959). The early numbers are black & white, but later numbers involve colour (often silkscreen) illustrations as the concrete poetry movement blossomed. It has become highly influential for both poets and artists (see for example the ICA group exhibition POOR.OLD.TIRED.HORSE. of 2009). Issue no. 10 is 'a concrete number', including Augusto de Campos, Eugen Gomringer, Dom Sylvester Houédard and Edwin Morgan. Issue no. 12 is a 'Visual Semiotic Concrete' edition. Issue no. 18 is a collaboration, with writings and script by Ad Reinhardt and drawings and layout by Bridget Riley. Issue no. 25 the final issue is dedicated to one-word poems. Contributors include : Ian Hamilton Finlay, Pete Brown, Anselm Hollo, Lorine Neidecker, Gael Turnbull, Marvin Malone, Cid Corman, Jerome Rothenberg, Guillaume Appolinaire, Larry Eigner, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Edwin Morgan, Cesar Lopez Nunez, Jonathan Williams, Tom McGrath, Spike Hawkins, Georg Trakl, Robert Garioch, Ernst Jandl, Paul de Vree, Robert Creeley, Vladimir Mayokovsky, Yury Pantratov, Libby Houston, Eugen Gomringer, Michael Shayer, Mary Ellen Solt, Peter Stitt, Dom Sylvester Houédard, Peter Lyle, Margot Sandemann, Heinz Gappmayr, Pedro Xisto, Hamish MacLaren, George Macklay Brown, Eli Seigel, Pierre Albert-Birot, Francis Ponge, Edward Wright, Emil Antonucci, Charles Biederman, Jim Nicholson, Ronald Johnson, Bernard Kops, Larry Eigner, Robert Creeley, Augusto de Campos, Edgard Braga, Bridget Riley, Ad Reinhardt, Robert Lax, Jeffrey Steele, Kenelm Cox, Stephen Bann, Hansjorg Mayer, Edward Lucie-Smith, Alan Riddell, Astrid Gillis, Aram Saroyan et al. Ref: IN NUMBERS (PPP Editions, Switzerland, 2009) pages 9, 18, 314-321. Also exhibited in the show of that name, ICA, 2012. Murray pages 2-3. Condition: most issues near fine, some very good with slight bruising to edges (see image of issues 9, 16, 17, 19, 20, 22, 25 showing edgewear/handling marks).