Homage to G. Seurat
It turns out that my new place of employment has a pretty strong collection of early work by Simon Cutts, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Thomas A. Clark, etc. Most of it is early, pre-1985 or so. Included are many of the more ephemeral publications--mostly postcards and folders. Everyone seems to enjoy ephemera these days, at least the non-contemporary variety, especially now as we move towards primarily digital forms of communication. I've never received anything like this in the mail, but imagine it would be nice. Postcards and folders now seem almost quaint/anachronistic . I say almost because the work is too good to take on that character. At least for me. These are little published artworks and poems and are much more gratifying to encounter one by one, on their own, than collected in a book. It's too bad that the format is underutilized.
Lucky for me, no one else at work seems to be interested in this stuff, so it is my content area (inasmuch as I really have one outside of cataloging).
Unlucky for me, no one else at work seems to be interested in this stuff, so it is unlikely that we will acquire more.
The pictures show one of the more interesting pieces we have: Simon Cutts' Homage to G. Seurat. This should be self-explanatory?
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