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A Letter to Christopher Logue
Purchased 1983
address
emotions, concepts and ideas
formal qualities
inscriptions
letter
lifestyle and culture
Logue, Christopher
named individuals
objects
people
photographic
popular culture
postage stamp
reading, writing, printed matter
society
symbols and personifications
paper unique lithograph ink
A Letter to Christopher Logue
support: 210 × 298 mm
image: 148 × 245 mm
Purchased 1983
<p><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/self-a-letter-to-christopher-logue-p07946" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07946</span></a> <b>A Letter to Christopher Logue</b> 1980
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<br/>Xerox print with collage and blue ink 8 3/4 × 11 5/8 (210 × 296), printed by the artist at the Circle Service Station, Norwich, published by the artist
<br/>Inscribed ‘Colin Self’ top left and ‘A letter to Christopher Logue 1980’ and ‘4/14’
<br/>Purchased from the artist (Grant-in-Aid) 1983
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<br/>Self met Logue in 1964 and they became friends, maintaining an intermittent correspondence. The artist sent the original of this <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/print" title="Glossary definition for 'Print'"><span>print</span></a> to Logue, making some photocopies at the local garage beforehand:
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<p>it's ‘down and out’ art. Of (about) the creative activity still coming through in contemporary commercial commodity print <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/m/medium" title="Glossary definition for 'Medium'"><span>media</span></a>, even when the posh print houses of London dont want to know. ... adding to each individually with postage stamps - linking them to my ‘People's Art’ theories, postage stamps being seen as ‘People's Prints’ with their own market value amongst the people - outside of ‘Fine Art’.</p>
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<br/>The image is from a saying by Confucius ‘“yes, all life flows on - like a river”’.
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<br/><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><i>The Tate Gallery 1982-84: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions</i>, London 1986
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2004-10-13T00:00:00
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address emotions, concepts and ideas formal qualities inscriptions letter lifestyle and culture Logue, Christopher named individuals objects people photographic popular culture postage stamp reading, writing, printed matter society symbols and personifications