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Folder 62

 Container

Contains 13 Results:

Portsmith City Art Project: Numbered Sails , 1973

 Item — Folder: 62
Identifier: CC-44081-46197
Scope and Contents

The ink drawings provide construction details of four ceramic varied colored sail shapes with numbers from Scottish sail boats. One drawing is vertical and one drawing is horizontal. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

A Formal Pool for Stockwood Park, Luton , 1992

 Item — Folder: 62
Identifier: CC-12334-12560
Scope and Contents

The inscription around the pool is taken from the "Poem on Nature" by Empedokles, the Presocriatic philosopher. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Proposal for a Monument to Jean-Jacques Rousseau , 1986

 Item — Folder: 62
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

Scythe/Lightening Flash , 1990

 Item — Folder: 62
Identifier: CC-12503-12730
Scope and Contents

Depicts image of scythes whose blades becomes transformed into a lightening flash, a metaphor for the French revolution. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Ventose , 1991

 Item — Folder: 62
Identifier: CC-12511-12738
Scope and Contents

Depicts a shovel labeled Ventose on its blade with a landscape in the background. The Finlay bibliographies differ as to its tirage 250 or 75 but it is more likely 250. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

The Bicentennial Proposal: The French War: The War of the Letter , 1989

 Item — Folder: 62
Identifier: CC-10688-10897
Scope and Contents

Exhibition was curated by Peter Day. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Pastoral , 1996

 Item — Folder: 62
Identifier: CC-34977-36694
Scope and Contents

This is a purely textural work in two colors, each letter of the words alternates as green or blue. This serves as a metaphor for the contrast of liberty and death in the French revolution. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Bicentenary Tricolour , 1989

 Item — Folder: 62
Identifier: CC-10992-11206
Scope and Contents

The poem on the French tricolor flag reads, "Liberty for Some; Equality for Some; Fraternity for Some" rather than "for All." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

A Shaded Path (1) , 1987

 Item — Folder: 62
Identifier: CC-12483-12710
Scope and Contents

This is a proposal for a straight and level path of 78 clay bricks stamped with names of Virgil in place of the maker's name. The path is to be built indoors, on a level floor, or out-of-doors on any grass-covered level ground without shade. Finlay s walk upon but for the mind to follow. It leads from Carl Andre's brick compositions to an elegiac classicism. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Proposal: A Shaded Path (2) , 1989

 Item — Folder: 62
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