Architecture
Found in 177 Collections and/or Records:
1/2 + 1/2 = Filliou/Pfeufer / Filliou, Robert ; Pfeufer, Joachim., 1975
1/3 = 7/9 (No.9/Mar) / Calleja, J.M.., 1981
The edition size was not specified but probably was 100 copies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
1926-1930 / Archives Librairie ; Lissitzky E ; Telingater S ; Chernikov I ; Rodchenko A ; Duchamp M ; Marinetti FT ; Depero F ; Goncharova N ; Ruscha E ; Zdanevich I., 1993
A Bizarre Building with Some Pretty Good Art Attached / Darwent, Charles; Finlay IH., 1995
This is a review of the Seagram corporate art collection installed in Ralph Erskine's Ark building that includes a work of Ian Hamilton Finlay, "Sea Flower." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
A Bizarre Building with Some Pretty Good Art Attached / Darwent, Charles; Finlay IH., 1995
This is a review of the Seagram corporate art collection installed in Ralph Erskine's Ark building that includes a work of Ian Hamilton Finlay, "Sea Flower." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
A Celebration of the Grove: A Proposal for the Improvement of the Olive Grove at Celle / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Sloan, Nicholas., 1984
Printed by the Parrett Press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
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.
A Project for Portland / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Stewart, Mark., 1993
This project is an abbreviated Doric temple with an inscription, "Aeterna Templa Caeli," the everlasting temple in the sky (cited by Varro in his De Lingua Latina). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
A Proposal for a Distant Spot / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1994
This proposal for Bernhard and Marie Starkmann depicts an oar wrapped in a fishing net stuck into a mound of rocks with the caption, "The Wanderings of Ulysses." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
A Proposal for a Garden Built on a Slope / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hill, Solveig., 1991
Also designated A Morning Star Folio 2/4 December 1991, a series edited by Alec Finlay. Not found in Fnlay's book of prints 1963-1997. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
A Proposal for a London Garden / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Sandell, Annika., 1993
The poem is inscribed on gates to the flower garden in the foreground as "Little Fields, Long Horizons," in the midground as "Little Fields Long, For Horizons" and in the background as "Horizons Long, For Little Fields." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
A Proposal for a Private Garden in Germany for Dr Mariana Hanstein / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Johnston, Robert., 1989
A Proposal for a Private Garden: Lily-Cobbled / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Simig, Pia Maria ; Costley, Ron., 1997
Lilly-cobbled refers to the abundant water-lilies that cover a section of the pool with their floating leaves in garden setting. This garden proposal was made for Alfred Richterich, Laufen, Switzerland. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
A Proposal for an Obelisk / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Sterling, Annet., 1993
This card proposes an object "suited to a Situation commanding an extensive Prospect" to be viewed from within William Shenstone's (18th century) The Leasowes garden. It is an obelisk that mocks a commission by Sadam Hussein for the Iraq super-gun from parts inadvertently forged by Walter Somers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
A Proposal for the Four Sentry Boxes at Schloss Benrath / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Simig, Pia Maria ; Sloan, Nicholas., 2002
Finlay explains the poem in the print Neoclassical Thaumaturgy as follows. Thaumaturgy means wonder working; an aspect of the old classical religion. the 'gods' which fly faster than sound are present-day warplanes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
A Proposal for the Garden of Arthur & Carol Goldberg / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Simig, Pia Maria; Sloan, Nicholas., 1994
This proposal includes an inscribed garden bench and a tree plaque based upon a quote from classical literature. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
A Proposal for the Grounds of the Serpentine Gallery, 1997
This book and the commission to Finlay were dedicated to Diana, Princess of Wales by the Board of Trustees and Staff of the Serpentine Gallery. The first fold-out page consists of the architectural layout and the second a print enumerating trees in the area arranged as a mandala dedicated to Diana in its center. The commission itself consisted of poetic engravings for eight benches and a tree-plaque placed in the meadow around the Sepentine. The captions on these objects are brief sentences adapted from writings, rendered in Latin and English, on Arcadia by Virgil. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
A Proposal for the Leasowes / Finlay, Ian hamilton ; Sloan, Nicholas., 1992
Finlay's proposal for inscription of a bench in Shenstone's garden (1714-1763) is based upon Didsley's (1764) description as it was in Shenstone's time. The inscription reads, "Here the path begins to ascend beneath a depth of shale, by the sideof which is a small bubbling rill, either forming little penisulas, rolling over peebles, or falling down small cascades, all under cover, and taught to murmur very agreeably." Finlay adds the following comment, "A bench, in our modern gardens, is a thing to be sat upon; in Shenstone's Leasowes it is a thing to be read." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
A Proposal for the Restoration of a Traditional "Cabane" - stone hut - in a garden in Provence / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Whittle, Andrew., 1995
A Proposal for The Robert Louis Stevenson Club , 1987
The poem to be inscribed as "A Man of Letters R.L.S." on a formal stone with irregular edges is inscribed with a 'one-word poem' and set in the grass within a small grove of birch trees" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.