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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:

Proposal: Ein Vorsschlag fur die Aussenanlage des Bundesarbitsgerichted in Erfurt: A proposal for the Grounds of the Federal Labour Court in Erfurt / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Simig, Pia Maria ; Clark, Thomas A. ; Clark, Laurie., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-35457-37193
Scope and Contents

This proposal calls for installation of lettered benches in Latin and German within a 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: Booklets

Proposal for a Kunsthalle / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-11104-11319
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: Booklets

Proposal for a Monument for First Battle of Little Sparta / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-12307-12532
Scope and Contents

Accompanied medals that are also held by the Sackner Archive. -- 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: Booklets

Proposal for a Monument to Jean-Jacques Rousseau , 1986

 Item — Folder 62: [Barcode: 31858072537966]
Identifier: CC-12339-12565
Scope and Contents

Printed by Stellar Press. Deals with the ideas of Rousseau on nature that formed the ethical and political behavior of the leaders of the French Revolution. -- 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

Proposal for a Pair of Gate Piers and Finials / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Townsend, Andrew., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-12541-12769
Scope and Contents

Finlay explains the artworks (hand grenades mounted on top of brick and stone towers) as follows: The 'pineapple' finials have become fragmentation grenades, while the combination of brick and stone suggests Virtue and Terror. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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

Proposal for a Temple of Apollo/Saint-Just / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Stewart, Mark ; Rogan, Peter., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-12603-12835
Scope and Contents

This is the plan for a new neo-classical temple at Finlay's Little Sparta. The image in the photograph is a photomontaged building to be erected against the landscape of Finlay's garden. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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: Books

Proposal for a Tree-Plaque: MD / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Harvey, Michael., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-12553-12781
Scope and Contents

The print depicts the letters 'MD,' standing for Marguerite Dennel, the last widow of Jean Baptiste Louvet (1760-1797), an enemy of Robespierre. Louvet lived as a fugitive in the forest of Jura and recalling the love for his separated family, "I engrave on the tender bark of the beech-tree the initials of my dear..." Finlay has recreated this drawing in the print with Michael Harvey. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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

Proposal for an Inscription to be added to the Monopteros in the English Garden, Munich / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-12551-12779
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

Proposal: Frogbit / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-35366-37100
Scope and Contents

The drawing was done in collaboration with Angus Modelmakers. -- 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

Proposition pour un Jardin Commemorant la Revolution Francais et Les Droits de l'Homme 1789-1989: Hotel des Menus Plaisers Versailles / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Chematoff, Alexandre ; Finlay, Sue ; Sloan, Nicholas ; Bann S., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-34850-36559
Scope and Contents

Stephen Bann contributed an essay on Finlay's proposal, "A revolutionary garden in Versailles." In it, he explains Finlay's choice of trees and bushes and their arrangement in terms of metaphors for the French revolution and the rights of man. -- 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: Books

Prosaic Proverbs / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Lindsley, Kathleen., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-11838-12059
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: Booklets

Publications 1972-1980 / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-12791-13075
Dates: 1980
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs

Publications Supplement to Complement a Catalogue 1991-1992 / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-10953-11165
Dates: 1992
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs

Publications Supplement to Complement a Catalogue Raisonne 1990-1991 / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-10975-11187
Scope and Contents

Publications Supplement to complement "A Catalogue Raisonne 1958 - 1990." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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: Catalogs

puinen tankii [wooden tank] / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-58052-10001298
Scope and Contents

This is a drawing of a Finnish toy in camouflage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975
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

Purity and Thinness in Concrete Poetry / Lucie-Smith, Edward; Schwitters K; Apollinaire G; Finlay IH; Johns J., 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-07228-7370
Scope and Contents

Review of "Between Poetry and Painting" at the ICA in London. Lucie-Smith states "Concrete poetry is difficult to describe but easy to recognize." Stored with other material about this exhibition. Stored with material dealing with the Archive of "Between Poetry and Painting." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965
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

Purse Seine / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Harvey, Michael., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-12945-13237
Scope and Contents

Seine is a fishing net...Purse may mean to gather up. The image consists of partially overprinted red colored "purse' words overlying green colored "seine" words -- 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

Quagga. No.2/May / Paul Schmidt, James Smith, editors ; Creeley R ; Finlay IH ; Bukowski C ; Shattuck R ; Crews J., 1960

 Item
Identifier: CC-62707-49149
Dates: 1960
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

Quin Morere / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-12392-12618
Scope and Contents

This print depicts an image of an aged but still sharp-edged guillotine blade inscribed with a Latin line from Virgil's Aeneid. -- 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: Various Formats

Rapel: 10 fauve and suprematist poems / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1963

 Item
Identifier: CC-11674-11892
Scope and Contents Missing one print, "ballad," a poem dealing with the theme of sailors. Includes a poem entitled "Homage to Malevich" in which a square is made up of the words black and block printed with a bold black typeface. This poem has been critically analyzed by Stephen Scobie (Earthquakes& Explorations, Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 1997, hard cover book, pp 182-189) as pivotal to the understanding of Finlay's work. "The letter to Garnier indicates also the extent to which Finlay's aesthetic was formed by the artistic movements of the early twentieth century; its reference points are Cubism, Fauvism, and Suprematism. The recourse to painting arose, the letter explains, at the point where verbal language in itself seemed inadequate: 'with the extraordinary (since wholly unexpected) sense that the syntax I had been using, the movement of language in me, at a physical level, was no longer there.' Painting - or, more generally, 'visual language' - provided (for Finlay, and...
Dates: 1963
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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