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Ampersands, 1968
Design by John Furnival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Devil Trap / Furnival, John., 1966
Included in Indicatif II portfolio. The print in different typefaces and type dimensions has a pentagonal shape. It is meant to be spun from a spoke placed in its center so as to create a blurred image of the words. The duplicate copy has a center fold. This print is depicted in Furnival's "Lost for Words" (2011) page 20. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Headlines:Eavelines / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Stevenson A; Lord S; Furnival J., 1967
Concrete poems were created from collated headlines. Eight were composed by the art students and five by Finlay. Ann Stevenson who did "Water Wheels in Whirl" is known as Ann Noel and is the wife of Emmett Williams. Work is dedicated to Eve Furnival, and cover of portfolio consists of a grid of identical child-drawn images of Finlay entitled "The Flying Scatsman." In this copy, the title page has a typographic error, viz., Published dy (sic) Openings Press...(this was not observed in another copy formerly held by the Sackner Archive). Ian Hamilton Finlay's "13 evelines," were sent to John Furnival's daughter Eve as postcards on thirteen consecutive days by students in Furnival's Bath Academy of Art class. It was subsequently printed as this portfolio. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
[Letter to George (Dowden)] / Furnival, John., 1966
Furnival writes that he sends Dowden the Plakats that he had requested. Furnival comments about the Destruction In Art Symposium as follows: "Most of the people seemed to be really mixed up and quite wrong about the therapeutic value of destruction in art - but I expect that is my own personal bias!" The recto image is an optical image of Plakat No.6 done by Jiri Valoch. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
[Letter to George & Pauline (Dowden)] / Furnival, John., 1965
Furnival writes Dowden of the financial difficulties of publishing and distributing Openings Press material and asks him to take some of the work to bookshops. This card has a geometric drawing done by a machine called a Harmonagraph which Furnival indicates that he is trying to perfect. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.