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Architecture

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 175 Collections and/or Records:

Six Tree-Column Bases / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Stewart, Iain., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-12524-12751
Scope and Contents

The columns are inscribed with the name of six persons prominent in the French revolution and they are coupled in pairs because of a relationship. They include LeBas & Saint-Just, Camille (Desmoulins), a revolutionary journalist & Lucille, his wife, and Marat & Charlotte (Corday) his assassin. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Spine / Fine, Jud ; Reese, Harry ; Apollinaire G ; Mallarme S ; Ernst M ; Roth D ; Iliazd ; Marinetti FT ; VanDoesburg T., 1993

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Identifier: CC-11045-11260
Scope and Contents

This book details the art gardens, steps and fountains titled "Spine" at the Maguire Gardens Central Library in Los Angeles. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Temple of Apollo/Saint-Just / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1994

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Identifier: CC-12608-12840
Scope and Contents

This reproduces a photomontaged drawing of a neo-classical temple with a landscape background built in Finlay's garden. The accompanying poem makes reference to Claude [Lorain?]. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Temple of Bara / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Stewart, Mark., 1986

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Identifier: CC-12454-12681
Scope and Contents

Commemorates Joseph Bara, the little drummer boy who was shot by Royalists for shouting "long live the revolution" instead of "long live the king" during the French revolution. The image is a post-modern temple or bandstand in which the columns are composed of interrupted side drums in relief. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

The Afterlife of Gardens / Hunt, John Dixon ; Finlay IH., 2004

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Identifier: CC-43566-45643
Scope and Contents

John Hunt comments and prints photographs of Ian Hamilton Finlay's installation with Ron Costley, Unda/Wave at the Max-Planck Institute in Stuttgart. The Archive for this project is held by the Sackner Archive. Photographs of installations in the churchyard of St. Michaels' Church in Bristol, England also illustrate the text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

The Dark Lady / Furnival, John., 1977

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Identifier: CC-13264-13565
Scope and Contents

In this drawing, the Dark Lady by the Dark Tow(er) was placed in the center section. A portrait of the head of Shakespeare was placed at the upper right and that of Queen Elizabeth on the left. "An Index to the Alphabet of Manuall Significations" (sign language) is drawn on the lower left side. The content of this drawing and scale of the portraits gives a surrealistic-like sensibility. The Archive also holds another drawing relating to this work entitled, [Shakespeare, His Maze]. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977