| Description | Includes two copies of Lindsay Barrett, 'The Pale Manifesto Dreams on Bleeding Nights', Thundereye Poem Sheet [1964]. This poem by Lindsay Barrett, a fellow student of Flanagan's at St Martin's was produced by Flanagan under the imprint 'Thundereye Poem Sheet' and constitutes what appears to be the only known extant copies. Each of the two copies is made up of two pages printed on light-sensitive Agfa paper - one copy prints the first page as a positive and second page in negative and reverse, the other copy prints them in reverse order. Both copies have a typed paper strip attached by a staple with the instruction inscribed, 'Read black pages by reflection in a mirror.', one copy includes four words in holograph ink. Comes with an envelope addressed to Fred Hunter by Flanagan, with his old London flat as the return address. |
| Administrative History | There are 162 works by Barry Flanagan in the Tate collection - made up of 18 sculptures, 1 film, 13 drawings and 130 prints. He was one of the most significant and consistently inventive British sculptors of his generation. First emerging in the mid-1960s in the context of the artistic experimentation typified by St Martin's School of Art, his sculpture attended to questions of material, process, form and idea and led to his work being critically received in the context of conceptual art and arte povera; an emphasis on the importance of making and craft subsequently led him to concentrate on casting from the early 1980s. |
| Custodial History | Gifted to Frederic Hunter by the artist; purchased by Andrew Sclanders Beat Books from Jill Hunter, the widow of Frederic Hunter, 2015 |