Finlay, Ian Hamilton, 1925-2006

The End 2nd Edition / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Gardner, Ian., 1989

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Identifier: CC-13003-13295

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A picture on the left depicts is a house on the distant horizon across three rolling fields and a blue background representing the sky. A matching picture on the right depicts a sailboat on the distant horizon beyond the same three rolling fields but with the blue background representing the sea. The caption reads as in a closing remark in a Children's book, "They returned home tired but happy." The End. The Sackner Archive also holds the 1st edition 1972. -- 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

The End / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Gardner, Ian., 1972

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Identifier: CC-11966-12189

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Includes two images and a caption dealing with a return to home from a land trip and from a return from a sea voyage. The caption reads as in a closing remark in a Children's book, "They returned home tired but happy." The End. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

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

The Enlightenment / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987

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Identifier: CC-12168-12392

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The poem reads, "After decapitation the victims are limewashed." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

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

The Errata of Ovid / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1983

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Identifier: CC-11785-12004

Scope and Contents The relation of the captions to the classical architectural images is obscure but is based upon Ovid's Metamorphoses. For example, both Echo and Narcissus are mentioned in two of Finlay's poems; the significance of "Echo to echo" and the arch is not apparent. However, the reflecting pool of the poem, for 'Narcissus' read 'Narcissus' follows the text of the poem as follows. According to a web site, relating to Narcissus and Echo Ovid's Metamorphoses, "Tiresias, the man recently blinded by Juno (known as Hera in Greek mythology, but this is the story of Ovid who wrote in Latin) and made a prophet by Jupiter (Zeus), quickly gained a reputation for being infallible in his answers about the future. Sometimes, however, the answers of Tiresias were as opaque as those of any other oracle. Liriope, a naiad, became pregnant with the child of the river god Cephisus. When their child was born, Liriope named him Narcissus. She asked the blind seer Tiresias if her son would live a long life and...

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: Various Formats

The First Battle of Little Sparta, February 4, 1983 (Flute, Begin with Me), 1984

Item — Box 147: [Barcode: 31858072458007]

Identifier: CC-12418-12645

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The medal depicts an automatic machine gun as a metaphor for a flute; commemorates first episode of an assult by the Strathclyde Region tax collectors on Finlay's home. The leaflet accompanyimg this medal commemorating the incident is a visual pun on Virgil's flute, with the vents in the barrel-sleeve as the finger-stops. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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 / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS / Ian Hamilton Finlay

The Fishing / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1997

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Identifier: CC-35270-37004

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

The Flageolet's Surname / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Lindsley, Kathleen., 1989

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Identifier: CC-10982-11195

Scope and Contents The image on this card is a drawing of a drum. Wikipedia 2011: A flageolet is a woodwind musical instrument and a member of the fipple flute family. Its invention is ascribed to the 16th century Sieur Juvigny in 1581.[1] It had 4 holes on the front and 2 on the back. The English instrument maker William Bainbridge developed it further and patented the "improved English flageolet" in 1803 as well as the double flageolet around 1805. They were continued to be made until the 19th century when it was succeeded by the tin whistle. Flageolets have varied greatly during the last 400 years. The first flageolets were called "French flageolets", and have four tone-holes on the front and two on the back. This instrument was played by Frédéric Chalon, Samuel Pepys, and Robert Louis Stevenson. Henry Purcell and George Frideric Handel both wrote pieces for it. Small versions of this instrument, called bird flageolets were also made and were used for teaching birds to sing. The number of keys on...

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

The Flip Side of Language / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Joyce J; Finlay IH; Roth D; Cobbing B; Chopin H; Heidsieck B; Jandl E; levy da; Bayer K; Morgan E; Berge C; Jochims R; Mayer HJ; Bense M; Rawlinson A; Szuter T., 1966

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Identifier: CC-57853-10001104

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Charles Cameron writes that these pages are "numbered by hand, with many dsh correx + typesetter's markups for 'the flip side of language' -- looks like it might be dsh's entry for the issue of the Oxford mag ISIS on concrete poetry which I edited, but I don't have a copy for comparison & it's hard to say..." This essay appeared in ISIS No.1507, 1966, a periodical hels by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

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

The Flip Side of Language / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Joyce J; Finlay IH; Roth D; Cobbing B; Chopin H; Heidsieck B; Jandl E; levy da; Bayer K; Morgan E; Berge C; Jochims R; Mayer HJ; Bense M; Rawlinson A; Szuter T., 1966

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Identifier: CC-59905-10002955

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This essay is another copy of the manuscript with slightly different handwritten correctionss and appeared in ISIS No.1507, 1966, a periodical held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

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

The Garden and the Revolution / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1992

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Identifier: CC-10896-11106

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The curators, J.B.Ravenal and A.Miller-Keller state that Finlay "engages classical forms and ideas as an ethical and philosophical means by which to bring present culture into sharper focus... The exhibition presents two central themes in Finlay's work: the garden tradition and the French Revolution." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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: Exhibit Catalogs

The Garden Is Open / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987

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Identifier: CC-12150-12374

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On the verso, Finlay writes that his garden is opened to members of the National Trust whose book considered Finlay's sculptural garden an architectural folly; however the gate to the garden in the image on the recto is framed with a guillotine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

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

The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection / Silverman, Gilbert ; Silverman, Lila ; Finlay IH ; Lichtenstein R ; Warhol A ; Beuys J ; Brecht G ; Wiley WT ; Ben ; Bertoia H ; Rickey G ; Snelson K ; Manzoni P ; Hansen A., 1981

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Identifier: CC-02440-2480

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: Exhibit Catalogs

The Happy Catastrophe / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1992

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Identifier: CC-11090-11305

Scope and Contents This poem "Be- falls," is based upon Friedrich Schlegel's characterization of the French Revolution. Schlegel (1772--1829) was an important German literary critic and philosopher who lived in Paris for a brief period of time.Internet 2011: In the early 1800s the flame of Schlegel's early radicalism dimmed and his thought moved steadily in a conservative direction. He became disillusioned with the French Revolution, which seemed to end in anarchy, commercialism and military dictatorship. Increasingly, he saw the defence of the Catholic Church and the old social hierarchy as the only safeguards against these disturbing trends, and as the only pillars of spiritual and communal values. His growing conservatism culminated in his conversion to the Roman Catholic Church in 1808 and in his diplomatic and literary activity on behalf of Metternich between 1809 and 1818. In his later political writings, especially his Signatur des Zeitalters (Sign of the Age) (1820), Schlegel defended a...

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: Booklets

The Harbour at Gravelines / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1978

Item — Folder 36: [Barcode: 31858072459963]

Identifier: CC-12370-12596

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The print depicts a blue pointillist image of the harbor. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

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

The Harbour / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1971

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Identifier: CC-11940-12163

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The photograph on the card was taken by Dianne Tammes. This poem was adapted from Finlay's publication, "A Mast of Hankies." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

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