Scope and Contents The image was taken from the painting by Jacques-Louis David. Wikipedia 2011: During the constitutional monarchy, there were two radical groups vying for power, the Girondins and the Jacobins. Although both groups were more radical in their views than the moderates who had designed the constitutional monarchy, the Girondins were somewhat less radical. In late 1791, the Girondins first emerged as an important power in France. At first the two parties were united in their views. The Girondins were concerned about the plight of the blacks in France's colonies and were instrumental in passing legislation granting equal rights to all free blacks and mulattoes. They wanted the declaration of war against Austria in early 1792 in the hopes that a show of strength would give them leverage with the King. The Jacobins grew increasingly critical of Girondin policies. During the September massacres later that year, the Girondin leaders tried to persuade the crowds out of their bloody attacks....

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Januszczak was an art critic for the Guardian newspaper who wrote unkindly of Finlay. The image depicts a bust of his severed head held by a human hand. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This poem is an attack on Michel Blum, who was responsible in part for rejection of Finlay's commission for the city of Paris. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This dedication to the poet, Charles Reznikoff, reads on one page, "uneven water woven," and the other has a cloth embroidered label, "woven" sewn on the page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a card printed with a cut-out that is designed to make a paper drum with drum sticks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Card depicts a drawn graphite rendition of Jon-Louis David painting of the death of Marat with an added hanging sword over him with the caption "I was published by Jonathan Cape." The latter is a British book publisher who published a book about architectural follies (Follies: A National Trust Guide) in the United Kingdom and cited Finlay's Temple Garden among them. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poem consists of two quotes attributed to Herbert Read and Claude Chimerique. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poem lists the life span and popular names for five Japanese WWII airplanes, e.g., PETE 1946-1945 (Mitsubishi F1M, Navy Type 0 Observation Seaplane). The cover depicts photograph of one of these airplanes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The drawing on the cover depicts a guillotine with the blade up over a basket and is titled Installation; the drawing on the verso is a guillotine with the blade down over a basket and is titled Event. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Photographs of bronze sculptures in the exhibition were collaged onto the pages. The catalog was designed by Finlay, Pia Simig, and Paul Khera. The photographs were taken by Antonia Reeve and Stephen White. Stephen Bann contributes an essay that describes and analyzes each work in the exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Januszczuk was the art critic for the Guardian newspaper who supported the National Trust's book on architectural follies that was severely critical of Finlay's Temple Garden. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This card mentions the names of individuals who were critically antagonistic to Finlay's Temple Garden, viz., Headley and Meulenkamp, authors of "Follies, A National Trust Guide" and Januszczack, the Guardian art critic. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Depicts four different types of drums carried by marchers. Deals with Finlay's dispute with the Strathclyde region tax collectors. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This card is subtitled, "and be a counter-composition." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This is a kinetic image of the name "Viala," a child-hero of the French revolution. Wikipedia: Joseph Agricol Viala (22 September 1780, Avignon "“ 6 July 1793, Caumont-sur-Durance) was a child hero in the French Revolutionary Army. Viala was living in Avignon when, in 1793, a federalist revolt broke out in the Midi after the fall of the Girondins in Paris. Supported by the British, the French Royalists allied themselves with the Federalists and took control of Toulon and Marseille. Faced with this uprising, the Revolutionary soldiers were forced to abandon Nîmes, Aix and Arles to the insurgents and fall back on Avignon. The inhabitants of Lambesc and Tarascon joined up with the rebels from Marseilles and together they headed for the Durance in order to march on Lyon, which had also revolted against the central government in Paris. The rebels hoped to destroy the Convention and put an end to the French Revolution. Joseph Agricol Viala was a nephew of Agricol Moureau, a Jacobin from...

Scope and Contents The card reads Joseph Bara 1779 - 1793 & Agricol Viala 1780 - 1793 surrounded by hobby horses and toy snare drums. Wikipedia 2011: Joseph Bara, also written Barra (30 July 1779, Palaiseau "“ 7 December 1793 Jallais) a young French republican soldier at the time of the Revolution. He was in fact too young to join the army but attached himself to a unit fighting counter revolutionaries in Vendée. After his death General J.-B. Desmarres gave this account, by letter, to the Convention. "Yesterday this courageous youth, surrounded by brigands, chose to perish rather than give them the two horses he was leading." The boy's death was seized on as a propaganda opportunity by Robespierre, who praised him at the Convention's tribune saying that "only the French have thirteen-year-old heroes". But rather than simply being killed by Breton royalists who solely wanted to steal horses, Bara was transformed into a figure who denied the Ancien Régime at the cost of death. His story became that...