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Capital, n. A republican crown / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Burckhardt, Lucius., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-13005-13297

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Scope and Contents

The image is a hat in the style worn during the French revolution placed on top of a basket decorated with flowers. Finlay captions the image with a quote from Gerd Neumann's book, "Callimachus" (1981). "Seen in this way, the lost CAPITAL, is an envoy; a parody of the now solely burlesque treatment of history in this post-modernism and, as a consequence, a double negation as well, yet without the desirable positive change in values, at least from the perspective of making history." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1981

Creator

Extent

0 See container summary (1 folded card) ; 6 x 8 cm

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Location

box shelf

Custodial History

The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, on loan from Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.

General

Published: Dunsyre Lanark, Scotland : Wild Hawthorn Press. Nationality of creator: Scottish and German. General: Added by: CONV; updated by: MARVIN.

Repository Details

Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository

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