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Finlay, Ian Hamilton, 1925-2006

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1925 October 28 - 2006 March 27

Nationality

Scottish

Found in 1991 Collections and/or Records:

Two Adaptions / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-10901-11111
Scope and Contents

There is one poem adapted from Symons and another from Goethe in this booklet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Two Elegies / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-35345-37079
Scope and Contents

The cards each provide commercial specifications of a sailboat, one marked sold, the other withdrawn. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Two Horizons / Ian Hamilton Finlay., 1998

 Item — Box 301: [Barcode: 31858072460912]
Identifier: CC-31587-33085
Scope and Contents

The spools of thread in a box were mailed to the Sackners as a Christmas gift from Finlay. One spool has blue, the other black thread, serving as a metaphor for clear and stormy weather, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Two Interpolations / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-35264-36998
Scope and Contents

The narrative compares classical Greek arcadia with the French revolution. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Two Milestones Two Lives / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-13000-13292
Scope and Contents

Varennes signifies the city that was the place where the King of France was captured during the French revolution and Vincennes the place where Rousseau had a vision that "...progress had not purified morals at all, but corrupted them disastrously." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Two One-Line Poems for Posties / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-35240-36974
Scope and Contents

The poem deals with Finlay's vision of the arriving and departing postal van. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Two Poems (1) / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-11100-11315
Scope and Contents

This poem is entitled Des Esseintes and reads The muddied- colours of - the mouthwash - cocktails. The title translate in English to boredom. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Two Poems (2) / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-11099-11314
Scope and Contents

The cover depicts a cap with a Spitfire (British WWII fighter airplane) roundel. The poem reads, A cap - of liberty- with a Spitfire -roundel -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Two Poems / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-52574-73707
Scope and Contents

The poems are printed on facing pages. One is entitled Tombstone and reads, Sundial - without - a gnomon. The other is entitled Marble and reads Parachute - of the gods. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Two Poetry Gardens: Giving a Voice to the Genius Loci / Butler, Frances; Finlay IH., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-22076-22493
Scope and Contents

Essay describes Ian-Hamilton Finlay's garden Stonypath in Scotland. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Two Proposals for the Munich Ehrentemple Sites / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Appleton, Ian., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-12516-12743
Scope and Contents

The images deal with Finlay's notions of denazification of the Ehrentemple sites. In Finlay's bookprints 1963-1997, this work is annotated as teo drawings with commentary but they are probably lithographis. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Two Visions / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-12303-12528
Scope and Contents

Printed by Stellar Press, this is an attack on the adverse criticism of Finlay's Garden Temple for its architecture in the book, Follies, A National Trust Guide. In this print, Finlay reviews the etymology of the word "folly" and notes that it is derived from the latin word "follis" meaning a ball, balloon or bellows. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987