Finlay, Ian Hamilton, 1925-2006
Dates
- Existence: 1925 October 28 - 2006 March 27
Nationality
Scottish
Found in 1991 Collections and/or Records:
Two Adaptions / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1991
There is one poem adapted from Symons and another from Goethe in this booklet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Two Benches / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1998
Two Billows / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1980
Two Elegies / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1997
The cards each provide commercial specifications of a sailboat, one marked sold, the other withdrawn. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Two Examples / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1991
Two Horizons / Ian Hamilton Finlay., 1998
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.
Two Interpolations / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1996
The narrative compares classical Greek arcadia with the French revolution. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Two Landscapes / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Gardner, Ian; Cozens, John Robert., 1991
Two Landscapes of the Sublime / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1989
Two Milestones Two Lives / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1995
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.
Two One-Line Poems for Posties / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1996
The poem deals with Finlay's vision of the arriving and departing postal van. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Two Poems (1) / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1993
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.
Two Poems (2) / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1993
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.
Two Poems / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1990
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.
Two Poetry Gardens: Giving a Voice to the Genius Loci / Butler, Frances; Finlay IH., 1984
Essay describes Ian-Hamilton Finlay's garden Stonypath in Scotland. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Two Proposals for the Munich Ehrentemple Sites / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Appleton, Ian., 1993
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.
Two Questions / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1993
Two Translations / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1983
Two Trees / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Healy, Richard., 1982
Two Visions / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987
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.