File 3 - 'W[riting]: Own writing'

2 lever arch files

Manuscript and typescript documents by George Wyllie, many undated, and press cuttings.

Folder 1 contents: '50,000 gallons of fuel to convey an orange', undated manuscript, 4 pp; Review of Broodthaers exhibition at Edinburgh Festival 1977, 2 pp; 'Towards the great terminus', 1970; manuscript on computers, undated, 2 pp; Tim Stead obituary, June 2002; 'The difference [on Hiroshima]', 1986; 'Grasping a thistle: Scotland and the visual arts', October 1991, 4 pp, also photocopy from ‘Gairfish: the McAvantgarde’, 1992, pp 146-150; ‘Greenock revisited’ [on Malcolm McCoig], March 2000, review for 'Greenock Telegraph'; Letter of support for Willie Fulton concerning ‘Under one sky’ project, November 1999, with project proposal by Willie Fulton; Gordon Munro: text for exhibition catalogue, September 1999, with printed copy; 'On civil disobedience', January 1999; Sketch and manuscript Customs declaration, undated; 'Impossible beginnings': contribution by George Wyllie to ‘A Scottish childhood’, July 1997, with correspondence from N Bailey, Killearn, August 1997; 'Real, not real, undated'; Greetings: Bosun’s Pipe exhibition, Portsmouth, July 1996; Letter to the Editor, 'The Herald', Glasgow on Inverclyde development, November 1997; 'Equilibrium – an’ a’ that', undated; 'My experience of making art beyond the gallery...' February 1997, 2 pp; 'i on the truth of stone', January 1995; 'For the burds', undated, 2 pp; 'Notes on eagles', undated; Letter to the Editor, 'The Herald', Glasgow, on the People’s Palace and George Wyllie’s All-British Slap and Tickle Machine, February 1997, with press cuttings; 'Experiments under nostalgia’s umbrella': review of performance at Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, 21-22 October 1987; ‘X’ marks the spot for Demarco [on conference at DECI], undated, 3 pp; Speech to Arts and Communities Forum, Dundee, December 1995; 'Scul?ture at sea', August 1987; Press release – ‘Arrivals and sailings... the Funnels are coming', April 1988; On RGI, with sketches of fish, 1986, 4 pp; 'How Italy really won the war', 1980s; 'The Yanks are coming [on the Parade of the Missing Tourists]', 1986; George Wyllie’s ‘Corrupting the young’, undated, 6 pp; 'On Cyril Gerber', undated; 'A very good question, James', typescript, 4 pp, with printed copy from Edinburgh review, 88, pp 58-62; Letter to the Editor, 'Greenock Telegraph' on Gourock Ropeworks, August 1992 – press cutting; 'The SSA', 1989; 'A Faultfinder' [sketch], 1982; 'Consulting the parrot', undated, 2 pp; Letter to the Editor, 'The Herald', Glasgow on devolution, November 1995; 'The impossibility of empire', June 1992, 3 pp; 'Here we go again', January 1988; 'The day we went to Documenta in Kassel', June 1978; 'Kissing time in Eastern Europe', undated, 6 pp; '1996 and all that', 2 pp; 'Reason, emotion and cheap tin trays', December 1987; 'Dear Tim, dear Angus [on new Scottish Gallery]', undated, 3 pp, sent to 'Scotsman' newspaper; 'The Edinburgh International', undated; 'Govan is a village', September 1992, 2 pp, and another version, 'Govan is still a fishing village', undated, 2 pp; 'Elusion and illusion' [c 1991], 3 pp; 'The Original Earth Guarantee', printed and manuscript copies, undated; Sketch for layout of a booklet, undated; Letter to the Editor, 'The Herald', Glasgow, on Royal Scottish Academy Galleries, November 1989; 'A book that changed me', 1990, 2 pp; The SSA: presidential address, 1987; 'Balanced precariously' [on SSA exhibition], undated; 'Adam and Eve': manuscript with sketches, undated, 6 pp; 'Hawk caught in telegraph wires', with sketch, undated; 'Thoughts for days', undated, 3 pp; 'On social sculpture', October 1987; 'On the existence of non-existences?' undated manuscript, 3 pp; 'America', undated manuscript, 7 pp; 'On the people of the world', undated manuscript; 'On Richard Demarco Gallery', undated; 'On Richard Demarco', undated; Spoof letter to Barbara and Murray [Grigor], Inverkeithing, Fife, 18 December 1986; On the influences of Joseph Beuys and Jean Arp on his work, November 1986; 'Vigorous vespers, Amsterdam', undated; On Glasgow Green, undated manuscript; A book about ferries, undated manuscript notes; ‘Ladderback’ and ‘Miss Cranston slept here’, manuscript notes with sketches, 1982; 'Applaudiemaschine für Gemälde' [Applause machine for artists], undated notes in German; On the nature of art, undated; Edinburgh-Sarajevo, 1988 and 1994, February 1994; 'Strategy-get-arts archive', manuscript notes, July 1994; Draft for launching at ‘PB’ [Paper Boat] lecture, undated; Speech on R Demarco, undated manuscript, 2 pp.

Folder 2 contents: The Stones of Scotland project, January 2003; 'Divine Rhythm', August 2000 [crossed out]; 'Testimonial for Renny Nisbet re Nantes', April 1998; ‘Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, even’, [19 ]; 'The Fall', November 2001; Testimonial for Renny Nisbet re Kilmartin House, Argyll, May 2001; The Walker Hunt Memorial [inventor of the safety pin], [19 ]; 'Skylight', [19 ]; Letter to Editor of 'The Herald' on redevelopment of Gourock, 18 November 1997. 2 pp; Resurgam, June 1999; PITA-People, [19 ]; 'Synenergezetics: a bridge to being?', November 1996. 2 pp; 'Hiroshima', 1986; 'i on the Truth of Stone' [on Calanais], January 1995; ‘Fade in Bloody Death to Beauty’: manuscript poem, [19 ]; 'The Spire', November 1996. 3 pp; 'The Tweed Bike', July 2001; 'A very good Question, James.' Edinburgh Review, 88, pp 58-62 (photocopy); 'New Beginnings?', June 2002; Testimonials for Chris Carrell and Eric Wishart, July 1998; ‘I once went down to the sea again’, [19 ]; Testimonial for Karen Radford, [19 ], 3 versions; ‘A Tentative Stone for Scotland’, December 2000, several versions; letter to Editor of ‘Artwork’, [19 ]; 'A Fearful Symmetry', October 1994; ‘Skylight’, [19 ]; Obituaries for Tim Stead, July and September 2002; Testimonial for Renny Nisbet re New Delhi, April 1998; Testimonial for Dennis Connors, December 2000; 'The difference of Hiroshima', [19 ]; 'Air and Stone', 1999; ‘Seven Vital Sparks’, September 1999 and July 2001, each 2 pp; 'Why Sculpture... and why the Sculpture Trust?' [19 ]; 'Resurgam Revisited', February 2002; Letter to the Editor of 'The Herald', July 2001, on global monetary system; 'The Clackmannan Sea Chest', August 2001; 'Accommodating passion', c 2000; ‘There’s nothing more certain than uncertainty' – fragment, 1999; ‘Wrap the pianos in felt’... – fragment, [19 ]; The ‘Wee Hauf’, May 2000, 2 pp; 'What else could a Viking do?' [poem], [19 ]; 'The crystal air of Inverclyde', March 1999, 2 pp; ‘Divine Rhythm’, August 2000, with note from Dawson Murray; 'A First-foot for the Capital', December 2000 [on Stones of Scotland]; 'An analysis of mediocrity', July 2000, 4 pp; 'The Whinhill Witness', [1998]; 'A Stone is a Stone'... [manuscript document], [19 ], 2 pp; 'The Safety Pin Song' [poem], [19 ]; 'Margot Sandeman', August 2000, with exhibition catalogue; Quartz – fragment, [19 ]; 'Alternative comedy', [19 ]; 'The Cosmic Voyage', May 2005, 4 pp.

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