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Kamikaze Butterflies - Cherry Blossom Splinters, 1973

 Item — Box: Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Finlay, Ian Hamilton
Identifier: CC-11893-12115

Scope and Contents

Finlay combines line images of airplanes with analogies to butterflies and a cherry blossom. This work consists of a folded sheet of light blue, blank tissue paper containing a second, slightly smaller, folded sheet of white tissue paper with line drawings of aeroplanes and text (in blue). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1973

Creator

Full Extent

0 See container summary (1 print (lithograph, folded) + sheet) ; 20 x 25 cm

Language of Materials

English

Physical Location

Original Sackner 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. 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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