Folder 62
Contains 13 Results:
Portsmith City Art Project: Numbered Sails , 1973
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.
Stem and Stern , 1991
A Formal Pool for Stockwood Park, Luton , 1992
The inscription around the pool is taken from the "Poem on Nature" by Empedokles, the Presocriatic philosopher. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Proposal for a Monument to Jean-Jacques Rousseau , 1986
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.
Scythe/Lightening Flash , 1990
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.
Ventose , 1991
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.
The Bicentennial Proposal: The French War: The War of the Letter , 1989
Exhibition was curated by Peter Day. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Ozone , 1989
Pastoral , 1996
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.
Bicentenary Tricolour , 1989
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.
A Shaded Path (1) , 1987
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.
Proposal: A Shaded Path (2) , 1989
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.