Hincks, Jo

Person

Staff Only

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

1794 / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Jo., 1993

Item

Identifier: CC-11072-11287

Scope and Contents

Depicts a flowering wildrose plant, a symbol used in the French Republican calendar that was established in 1794. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Poppy, n. / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Jo., 1987

Item

Identifier: CC-12136-12360

Scope and Contents

The card depicts a watercolor rendition of poppies captioned with "the Phrygian Flower." Phhrygia refers to an ancient country in central and NW Asia Minor. A Phrygian cap was a soft conical cap associated with the liberty cap in the late 18th and early 19th centuries . Finlay draws attention to poppies as a metaphor for the liberty cap. This card deals with a metaphor for the French revolution. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987