Finlay, Ian Hamilton, 1925-2006
Dates
- Existence: 1925 October 28 - 2006 March 27
Nationality
Scottish
Found in 1989 Collections and/or Records:
Metaphor and Motif: Tarasque Press Exhibition / Stephen Bann, curator ; Blaine J ; Cutts S ; Finlay IH ; Mills S ; Gardner I., 1972
Includes essays by Stephen Bann, Robert Kenedy, Stuart Mills and Simon Cutts on the relationship of Tarasque press to concrete and visual poetry in England during the seventies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Methodological Difficulties in the Examination of the Experimental Poetry / Padin, Clemente ; Berenguer A ; Finlay IH ; Tablada J ; Xisto P ; Leminski P., 1995
MFV / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Simig, Pia Maria., 1998
The color photograph on the cover of this card depicts a toy sailboat. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
M.F.V.T. / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Cutts, Simon., 1973
The title is an acronym for Motor Fishing Vessel Tea. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Mid-Pacific Elements / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1973
This booklet depicts captioned air-battle scenes in the Pacific during WW II. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Midnight Rambler / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Fidler, Martin., 1975
The image appears to be an abstracted seascape prepared for an unrealized project. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Midship Section / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1996
This card depicts a line drawing of a mid section of a sail boat labeled in black except for the word "carling" that is labeled in red. This word means a short fore-and-aft beam running beside a hatchway, mast hole or other deck opening to support the inner ends of the partial deck beams in way of the opening. The card is dated Christmas 1996 from Little Sparta and the significance of this word poem might relate request support of Finlay's fight against The Stathclyde Region taxation board. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Midship Section / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1996
The image on this Christmas card is a cross-sectional drawing of a view of a sailing ship. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Midway 3 / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Jones, Grahame., 1982
Millet: Pseudo-Moralist / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987
Print depicts a photograph of a bust of a feminine head in a basket that is captioned by the title of this print. Millet was the editor of Art Press Paris who was responsible in part for the city of Paris' rejection of Finlay's sculptural proposal. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Mindful Page, The / Gary Richman, curator ; Wendy Holmes, curator ; Baldessari J ; Baruchello GF ; Becker N ; Coe S ; Corris M ; Curtay JP ; DeCoster M ; Denes A ; Dibbets J ; Downsborough P ; Drescher H ; Ernst K ; Finlay IH ; Fones R ; Gilbert S ; Gordon B ; Hamilton R ; Holt N ; Knorr K ; Kruger B ; Lanyon E ; Lavater W ; Laxson R ; Lehrer W ; LeWitt S ; Long R ; McCarney S ; Metz M ; Opie J ; Osborn K ; Phillips T ; Richmond G ; Rutkovsky P ; Rowe W ; Shaw K ; Snow M ; Stokes T ; Weil S ; Weiner L ; Williams R ; Winkler M ; Zelevansky P ; Zimmerman P., 1987
Most of the books depicted in this catalogue that were shown as a traveling exhibition in New England were mass produced artist books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Mirror, n. / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Andrew, John., 1996
The image on the card depicts a line drawing of a sail boat. Finlay defines the title, Mirror, as a boat we can see ourselves in. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Modern Antiquities, 1998
The pages consist of 29 black and white photographs taken by Hannappel of Finlay's garden, Little Sparta. One page has a poem by Hoderlin translated by Harry Gilonis, opposite a photograph of a contemplative Finlay, sitting on a bench in the garden just outside his house, The poem reads, "At peace the ploughman sits outside his cottage in the shade... A drawing on the inside cover of the book provides the sites in the garden. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Modern Antiquities/Garden Works, 2000
The photographs of Finlay's sculptural works consisting of stone carvings onto classical columns and vases were taken in the Steinhalle Landesmuseum, Mainz Germany. An explanation of each piece is provided in the back of the catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Modern Artist Books / Sims Reed ; Andre C ; Beuys J ; Blake P ; Darboven H ; Dibbets J ; Finlay IH ; Mayer HJ ; LeWitt S ; Roth D ; Ruscha E ; Saito T ; Snow M., 2012
Monostich / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1995
Monostich / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1997
Monostich (for BS) / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1998
The card is printed in lower case letters "trackless snows of the cool icelandic girl." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Monostich: Western Approaches / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1992
Monostitch for the French Election / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Millet C., 1988
This is a poetic attack in French on Catherine Millet, Editor of Art Press Paris, for her support in the rejection of Finlay's commission for the city of Paris. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.