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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:

Jeunesse Doree of the Counter Revolution! / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-12126-12350
Scope and Contents

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.

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: Various Formats

Jibs / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Tammes, Diane ; Cutts S., 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-11723-11941
Scope and Contents

The photographs that were reproduced in this book were taken by Dianne Tammes. -- 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: Booklets

John Picking: Paintings from Spain / Ian Hamilton Finlay, editor., 1963 - 1964

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Identifier: CC-11687-11905
Scope and Contents

This catalogue, with a printing technique similar to P.O.T.H., provides a price list for works of the artist, John Picking. One of the paintings on the list was lent by Finlay. A page of this catalogue has a concrete poem by Finlay. It also contains a unbound reprint of a semiotic poem by Finlay that appeared in P.O.T.H. This publication is not mentioned in the Finlay bibliographies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963 - 1964
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

Join the Saint-Just Vigilantes (1) / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1983

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Identifier: CC-12081-12305
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1983
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

Join the Saint-Just Vigilantes (2) / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-12111-12335
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1983
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

Jonathan Hirschfeld and Ian Hamilton Finlay / Schmidt, Michael; Finlay IH., 1993

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Identifier: CC-02845-2888
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

Joseph-Agricola Viala 1780-1893 / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1994

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Identifier: CC-12596-12828
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...
Dates: 1994
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

Joseph Bara 1779 - 1793 / Agricol Viala 1780 - 1793 / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Clark, Laurie., 1991

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Identifier: CC-12217-12441
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...
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: Various Formats

Joseph Bara after Gris / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1987

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Identifier: CC-12397-12623
Scope and Contents

Joseph Bara was the name of the little drummer boy of the French revolution and the image is adapted from a cubist painting by Gris entitled "Drummer." -- 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: Various Formats

'Joy Through Strength' Say Teapots / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Furnival, John., 1967

 Item — Folder 36: [Barcode: 31858072459963]
Identifier: CC-12402-12628
Scope and Contents

This poem is included in Finlay's Headlines:Eavelines but this drawing has a totally different layout than the print included in the portfolio. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES / TO BE PROCESSED / Ian Hamilton Finlay

Jug, n. / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1995

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Identifier: CC-12975-13267
Scope and Contents

The poem describes Finlay's feeling when viewing a jug within a still-life by the French painter, Juan Gris. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995
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

Justice for the Fat Stupid Kids / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-12128-12352
Scope and Contents

The card reads :See page 103, "Follies, National Trust Guide." -- 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: Various Formats

K S - R / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Jo., 1997

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Identifier: CC-35370-37104
Scope and Contents

The image and caption were adapted from Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. -- 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

Kamikaze Butterflies - Cherry Blossom Splinters / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1973

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Identifier: CC-11893-12115
Scope and Contents

Finlay combines line images of airplanes with analogies to butterflies and a cherry blossom. This work consists of a folded sheet of light blue, blank tissue paper containing a second, slightly smaller, folded sheet of white tissue paper with line drawings of aeroplanes and text (in blue). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973
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

Katalog 2 / Bisson-Millet, Paule-Leon ; Apollinaire G ; Dupuy J ; Federman R ; Gette PA ; Gomringer E ; Iliazd ; Finlay IH ; Lax R ; Queneau R ; Darboven H ; Williams E ; Racine R., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-23804-24252
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: Catalogs

Keilkraft Propellers / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1997

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Identifier: CC-35356-37090
Scope and Contents

The line drawing on the cover depicts a still life after Ben Nicholson, "Three Mugs and a Bowl." The title refers to the toy propellers in the bowl. A similar image of the propellers was drawn in the silkscreen print by Finlay and Hincks, "Jar" 1997 -- 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

Kellkraft Propellers / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1997

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Identifier: CC-58332-10001550
Scope and Contents

The image of this print was done by Hincks after a painting by Ben Nicholson, "Three Mugs and Bowl." -- 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

Kennst Du / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1995

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Identifier: CC-12926-13218
Scope and Contents

Finlay create a new poem adapted from a poem by Goethe. In Goethe's version in German, it begins Do you know in the land where the lemons bloom... In Finlay's version in English, Do you know the sea where the lemon-shaped fishing boats rock? -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995
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

King / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1990

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Identifier: CC-11821-12040
Dates: 1990
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

Kingdom of Fife / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1982

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Identifier: CC-11779-11998
Dates: 1982
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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