Finlay, Ian Hamilton, 1925-2006
Dates
- Existence: 1925 October 28 - 2006 March 27
Nationality
Scottish
Found in 1989 Collections and/or Records:
National Flags Series: Utopia / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Harvey, Michael., 1975
The image of the flag is an empty rectangle serving as a metaphor for Utopia according to Finlay where no individual nations exist. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
National Flags Series: Valhalla / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Harvey, Michael., 1975
Image conmsists of three armored black tanks lined up horizontally on a background of a red colored diamond shape. The red color element signifies shelling and destruction of these tanks by their enemy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Nature Is the Devil / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987
In this card, Finlay interprets Samuel Coleridge statement "Nature is the Devil in a fancy waistcoat" to "Nature is a storm trooper in a camouflage smock." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Nature Is the Devil... / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987
Finlay substitutes the words, storm trooper and camouflage smock for the Devil and fancy waistcoat, respectively, in the following quotation from Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Nature is the Devil in a fancy waistcoat." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Nature over again after Poussin / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Bann S ; Paterson W., 1981
Wilma Paterson contributed a music score on "julie.' Finlay contributed two pages on "Unconnected Sentences on Gardening" including "A Garden is not an object but a process, Modern Sculpture is "Wilfuly" ignorant, Technology - Epic Convenience, A liberal's compost heap is his castle, and Weather is the chief content of a garden, Camouflage is the last form of classical landscape painting - It represents not 'this' tree but fields and trees, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Necktank (1918) / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Harvey, Michael., 1973
This image of a World War I armored vehicle is camouflaged with red and yellow stripes causing a play on words, viz., necktank vs. necktie. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Neoclassicism Needs You / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1983
The image is a sailor in uniform with his hand outstretched as might be depicted in a war poster. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Neoclassicisme Revolutionnaire / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1988
The image on the card is a classical pot with a fishnet draped from the top. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Neoclassicisme Revolutionnaire / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1988
The image in black and white is of a classical pot with a fishnet draped from the top. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Net Markers of the Disciples: SP / Ian Hamilton Finlay., 1999
The poem refers to a New Testament biblical text in Mathew 4 about fishing with nets; SP signifies Simon Peter's net marker. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Net Markers of the Disciples: SP / Ian Hamilton Finlay., 1999
The poem refers to a New Testament biblical text in Mathew 4 about fishing with nets; SP signifies Simon Peter's net marker. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Net/Planet / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1968
In this card, different names of fishing nets are printed in black in the form of spokes of a wheel ending with "planet" printed in gray. According to Murray's Finlay bibliography, the card was published in 1969 but the verso of the card shows the date as 1968. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Nets / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1970
The word "nets" is shaped in the form of a weather vane, a metaphor for catching wind rather than fish. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Nettles / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Kedik, Stephanie., 1986
Neun Vorschlage fur Einen Wald (Nine Proposals for a Forest in Landesgartenschau Grevenbroich) / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Simig, Pia Maria ; Costley, Ron., 1995
The book depicts impressionistic watercolors of poems mostly adapted from classic literature on tree plaques or as sculptures among the trees. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
New Boat / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1996
The image on the card depicts a drawing of the aft section of a sail boat and the citation gives a poetic homage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
New Directions. No.22 / Ferlinghetti L ; Finlay IH., 1970
This issue includes 16 pages of b&w photographic reproductions of outdoor concrete poetic works by Finlay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
New Picabia Series: Andre Le Notre Lassoes Bernard Lassus! / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1996
New Publications 1981-82 / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1982
New Publications: Autumn 1971 / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1971
One copy has ink additions presumably written by Finlay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.