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Finlay, Ian Hamilton, 1925-2006

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1925 October 28 - 2006 March 27

Nationality

Scottish

Found in 1989 Collections and/or Records:

Inauguration of the orchard - Replenishment of the larder / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-35254-36988
Scope and Contents

The booklet is arranged such that one reads through the first poem, Orchard, and then reverses the booklet to read through the second poem, Larder. Orchard is printed on green colored paper and larder on orange colored paper. With a single word to a page, Orchard reads, Apple, Pear, Cherry, Plum, Tree, whereas Larder reads, Apple, Pear, Cherry, Plum, Jam. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets

Inscape / Finlay IH ; Overy P., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-27566-28640
Scope and Contents

This exhibition which was selected by Paul Overy, featured Finlay and five Scottish visual artists. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner. 2 copies

Dates: 1976
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs

Inscription / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-12264-12488
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1992
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

Installation / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-13002-13294
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1989
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

Instruments of Revolution / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Bann S., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-12590-12822
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1992
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs

Inter Artes Et Naturan / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Page R ; Bann S ; Sloan N., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-11741-11959
Scope and Contents

The text is printed in blue and red colors that are interwoven, blue for French and red for English. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs

Interior/Interieur: Homage to Vuillard / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Harvey, Michael., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-12437-12664
Scope and Contents The print depicts the word "Singer" in orange letters on a brown and orange background. In Finlay's homages, that distance is often marked by an ironic wit, what Bann called 'a minor key': a diminution of scale that is friendly and playful, but not without a certain edge to it. The Homage to Pop Art (1973), for instance, restates Cezanne's 'the cylinder, the sphere, the cone' in terms of an ice-cream cone; the Homage to Seurat (1972) transforms the artist's pointillism into a connect-the-numbered -dots painting kit. Other homages are less obviously playful, but no less complex. The Homage to Vuillard (1971) consists of the single word SINGER, printed in warm shades of yellow and brown that recall the intimacy of Vuillard's interiors. The literal meaning of the word (Vuillard as the 'singer,' or celebrator, of domestic life) is both reinforced and slyly commented on by the association of 'Singer' as the leading trade name of sewing machines (Stephen Scobie: Earthquakes&...
Dates: 1971
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

Interpolations in Hegel / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-11788-12007
Scope and Contents

This booklet consists of philosophical statements. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets

Interview by Julian Shalon / Ian Hamilton Finlay., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-13327-13628
Dates: 1988
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Audiovisual Materials

Into the Forest / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Townsend, Andrew., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-10723-10932
Scope and Contents

Listed as one of "Path series". This image is a reproduction of a stone sculptural relief. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989
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

Iron Ship / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Gardner, Ian., 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-11971-12194
Scope and Contents

The image depicts an ironing instrument on its side as a metaphor for a ship. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972
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

Is There a Ship Named the Wave Sheaf? / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Harvey, Michael., 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-11967-12190
Dates: 1972
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

Jacobin, after Stephen Edlich / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-11079-11294
Scope and Contents

The layout of the image resembles the collages done by Edlich (1944-1989). -- 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

Jacobin Definitions / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Lindsley, Kathleen., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-11832-12052
Dates: 1991
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets

Jacob's Boat / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-35253-36987
Scope and Contents

The pages describe the boat with a grid of words that signify colors, e.g., green, brown, black, and ochre. The last page has a grid of the word, patch. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets

Jamboree!? / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Fidler, Martin., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-12050-12274
Scope and Contents

This depicts a drawing of several model gliders arranged haphazardly on a surface. The commericial card was unrealized. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975
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

Jandl's Request about Finlay's work and Finlay's Response / Jandl, Ernst; Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1974

 Item
Identifier: CC-61286-10003933
Scope and Contents

Stored in Finlay Archive cabinet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974
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

January / Art Base ; Andre C ; Perneczky G ; Barry R ; Beuys J ; Broodthaers M ; Brus G ; Jandl E ; Valoch J ; Kolar J ; Gomringer E ; Roth D ; Chopin H ; Mon F ; Furnival J ; Finlay IH ; Spoerri D ; Gerz J ; Thomkins A ; Williams E ; Cobbing B ; Vigo EA ; Varney E ; Darboven H ; Duchamp M ; Filliou R ; Cage J ; Patterson B ; Brecht G ; Kaprow A ; Saito T ; Higgins D ; Knowles A ; MacLow J ; Young L ; Ben ; Hansen A ; Hoch H ; Johnson R ; Latham J ; Manzoni P ; Messager A ; Nauman B ; Perneczky G ; Picabia F ; Ray M ; Ruscha E ; Schwitters K ; Themerson S ; Debord G ; Twombly C ; Vostell W ; Weiner L., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-35474-37210
Scope and Contents

Lists multiples, publications, prints, catalogues and ephemera of artists books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs

Januszczak / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-12176-12400
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1989
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

Jar / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-35361-37095
Scope and Contents

The print depicts a jar with three toy propellers, "Keilkraft Propellers" (1997), as in another card by Finlay and Hincks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997
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

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