Finlay, Ian Hamilton, 1925-2006
Dates
- Existence: 1925 October 28 - 2006 March 27
Nationality
Scottish
Found in 1989 Collections and/or Records:
Origins of British Experimental Poetry / Cobbing, Bob; Gomringer E; Houedard DS; Finlay IH; Morgan E; deMelo e Castro EM; Garnier P; Chopin H; Novak L; Fahlstrom O; Cox K; Williams J; Edmonds T., 1973
Cobbing discusses the early concrete poems of Ian Hamilton Finlay, John Furnival, Kenelm Cox, Dom Sylvester Houedard, and Tom Edmonds in depth. This essay is unbpubished. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
OSIRIS - osiers (from Exhibition "Presences of Nature," Carlisle Museum & Art Gallery) / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Gardner, Ian., 1982
Out of the Strong Came Forth Sweetness / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Clark, Laurie., 1974
This depicts a warship with helicopters hovering about it as a metaphor for bees swarming about honey. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Outsider, The. No.2/Sum / Jon Webb, Lou Webb, editors ; Burroughs WS ; Bukowski C ; Corso G ; Hollo A ; Williams J ; Miller H ; Finlay IH ; Patchen K ; Edson R ; Dorn E ; Lamantia P ; Micheline J ; Morgan E ; Dawson F., 1962
The poem by Finlay, "Art Student," is a conventional poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
over lapping water lily leaves / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1997
Ovid: The Metamorphses, Book VIII / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Nash, John R.., 1995
Poem was adapted from Ovid's "The Metamorphosis." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Ovidian Flowers / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1998
Finlay writes that early in 1941, the German U-boat successes against American Merchant shipping resulted in a number of Flower Class corvettes being transferred from the Royal Navy to the U.S. Navy. The poem lists the name changes of these ships. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Oystercatchers / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 2000
The etching or woodcut black and white image on the card cover by Hincks appears to be a scene taken from Finlay's Little Sparta garden. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Pacific Board Wargame / Ian Hamilton Finlay., 1975
The perforated papercard prints contain reproductions of airplanes and aircraft carriers and stylized cherry blossoms emblematic of Kamikazes, one print in red and the other in black. Instructions for playing the game are provided on the loose sheet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Pacific Board Wargame / Ian Hamilton Finlay., 1975
The perforated papercard prints contain reproductions of airplanes and aircraft carriers and stylized cherry blossoms emblematic of Kamikazes, one print in red and the other in black. Instructions for playing the game are provided on the loose sheet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Pacific; Type A & B - Board Wargame for Two Players / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Harvey, Michael., 1974 - 1975
This maquette for the instruction sheet of Pacific in red and black ink was done by Michael Harvey. It was part of the Finlay Archive with the same title also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Painting by Numbers: A Homage to Christopher Wood / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Sackett C., 1997
Each page consists of the fishing number of a boat at the top, a blank space in the middle and the name of the ship with its port of call at the bottom. The typography was done by Colin Sackett. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Pan Loaf Provincialism / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; MacDiarmid H; Niedecker L; Williams J., 1962
This is a polemic against the Glasgow Herald that gave an unfavorable review to Finlay's book, "Glasfow Beasts." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Pan-Pipes / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1998
The cover depicts a row of three, musical pan-pipes with the caption, "(torpedo tubes)." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Panzer Am Waldrande / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Nicholson, Jim., 1975
An additional card and correspondence is included in the Archive entitled "Panzers/Pansies." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Paperworks in Print available 1992 / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1993
The list was compiled by Pia Simig. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Parheliacal Marble / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Farthing, Julie., 1992
This work was also rendered as a neon sculpture. Parheliacal means reflection of an image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Paris Is the Sink of All Vices / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1988
This is a quotation from Jean-Paul Marat as an imagined admonishment to Michel Blum and Yves Hayat for their rejection of Finlay's commission for the city of Paris. The poem reads, "Paris is the sink of all vices. And its inhabitants claim they are free! They should not flatter themselves; to be free it is necessary to have judgement, courage, virtues......" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.