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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:

Poverty / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Farthing, Julie., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-11826-12046
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

Presences of Nature: Words and Images of the Lake District / Clark TA ; Finlay IH ; Fulton H ; Gardner I ; Horovitz F ; Meyer T ; Williams J ; Fisher R., 1982

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Identifier: CC-38774-40686
Scope and Contents

This catalogue was edited by Neil Hanson. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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: Exhibit Catalogs

[Price List] / Lure ; Finlay IH ; Friedman K ; Higgins D ; Johnson R ; Knizak M ; Knowles A ; Ono Y ; Roth D ; Tot E ; Ben ; deRidder W ; Penck A., 1994

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Identifier: CC-07569-7714
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: Catalogs

Print: Including Digital Design & Illustration Annual 7. No.4/Jul-Aug / Newell P ; Heller S ; Spiegelman A ; Lissitzky E ; Finlay IH ; Kindersley R ; Stirling A ; Harvey M ; Sloan N., 1999

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Identifier: CC-33037-34659
Scope and Contents

Ellen Shapiro contirbuted an essay, "Posterity's Yiddishkeit," dealing with the Yiddish Book Center. In it, she mentions and reproduces the cover of a facsimile edition of El Lissitzky's "Yingle Tsingl Khvat." The Sackner Archive holds the second edition of this book published in Warsaw. It is a children's story in verse about a boy named Tsingl Dhvat who brought winter to his village. Juanita Dugdale writes about the English craft of lettercutting in stone and mentions the work of Ian Hamilton Finlay. This issue features a large section that reproduces computer screens on the Internet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

Printed Works / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1990

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Identifier: CC-12619-12851
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: Catalogs

Prints 1963 - 1997 Druckgrafik / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1997

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Identifier: CC-30171-31572
Scope and Contents This catalogue that illustrates Finlay's prints in chronological order, was compiled by Pia Simig. An in-depth essay by Rosemarie E. Pahlke, "Homesickness for Greek Temples," traces Finlay's themes, poetry, philosophy and describes his garden Stonypath. "The significance of his oeuvre and the widespread admiration it has earned derive primarily from its complexity...He offers us his own unique view of the present and his perception of everyday life, displayed on a background of literary, philosophical and historical connotations. In the process, he arrives at formulations and visual realisations that either spontaneously overwhelm us with their astounding simplicity or challenge us - even those who feel confident of having achieved a modicum of erudition - to find answers to the questions they pose. ..Finlay's works derive their vitality from his excellent powers of observation, a delicate irony, a sense of humour one might refer to as 'British,' a feeling for poetic images (but a...
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: Exhibit Catalogs

Prinz Eugen / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1990

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Identifier: CC-10846-11056
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

Private Tutor: Arcady. No.8/Mar / Ian Hamilton Finlay., 1968

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Identifier: CC-37544-39401
Scope and Contents

Finlay presents his poem "Arcady" that consists of a horizontal row of the letters of the alphabet and poses questions as to its meaning. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

Private Tutor: The Weed Boat Masters Ticket Preliminary Test (Part One). No.11/May / Ian Hamilton Finlay., 1970

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Identifier: CC-37547-39404
Scope and Contents

Finlay provides instructions and questions related to his poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

Proem / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Costley, Ron., 1998

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Identifier: CC-35417-37152
Scope and Contents

The pages depict four line drawings of a ship prow and a linocut listing Roman numerals from XIX to X. A card with the same title held by the Sackner Archive is a linocut taken from one of the pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Proem / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Costley, Ron., 1997

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Identifier: CC-58402-10001619
Scope and Contents

The cover depicts a line drawing of the prow of a ship. -- 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

Proem / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Costley, Ron., 1997

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Identifier: CC-35355-37089
Scope and Contents

The cover depicts a line drawing of the prow of a ship. -- 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

Project for a Monument to Ludwig Feuerbach / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1986

 Item — Folder 36: [Barcode: 31858072459963]
Identifier: CC-58280-10001513
Scope and Contents

The slogan relates to Finlay's dispute with the local tax collectors. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986
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

Project For A Monument To Saint-Just / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Sloan, Nicholas., 1985

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Identifier: CC-11996-12219
Scope and Contents

Instructions are provided for cutting and folding to form a paper pyramid. The epithets applied to Saint-Just by a contemporary appear on the sculpture, viz., beautiful, fanatical, and dictatorial along with his birth and death dates, 1967-1794. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985
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

Project for the Schweizergarten Vienna / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Sloan, Nicholas., 1984

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Identifier: CC-11888-12110
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: Books

Projet pour un Parc Republicain / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1988

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Identifier: CC-12505-12732
Scope and Contents

The print depicts a landscape viewed from above with a classical Greek temple and trees. The path in the center has the shape of an axe. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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: Various Formats

Propaganda for The Wood-Elves / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Dwight, Harvey., 1981

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Identifier: CC-12504-12731
Scope and Contents

Depicts a tree with the Nazi swastika wrapped around its trunk and an axe on the ground leaning against the tree-trunk. From the title and the brown color of the folder, one might interpret the propaganda of these symbols as the Third Reich and the French revolution. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981
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

Proposal: A Rubbing Post for a Wild Boar / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Simig, Pia Maria ; Lyle, Peter., 1997

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Identifier: CC-35367-37101
Scope and Contents

The proposal was done for a private garden in Provence. The image on the cover is a wild boar. The print depicts a circular post cast in bronze, with plain and rusticated bands alternating, the pattern adapted from Sebastiano Serli's Five Books of Architecture. At the top of the post, are the words, 'AGE QUOD AGIS' - 'What you are doing, do thoroughly.' -- 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: Booklets

Proposal: A Shaded Path (2) , 1989

 Item — Folder 62: [Barcode: 31858072537966]
Identifier: CC-12484-12711
Scope and Contents

This is a proposal for a garden path of bricks stamped with names of trees taken from Sir William Temple's book "Gardens in Virgil's Time," viz., 'The trees were the elm, the pine, the lime-tree, and the Platanus, or plame-tree, whose leaf and shade, of all others, was the most in request...' -- 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 / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

Proposal: Ein Vorschlag fur die Bundesgartenschau, Magdeburg, 1999 / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Simig, Pia Maria; Clark, Thomas A.; Clark, Laurie., 1998

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Identifier: CC-35450-37186
Scope and Contents

This proposal calls for installation of calligraphic plaques within a stone walls enclosed garden. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998
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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