Finlay, Ian Hamilton, 1925-2006
Dates
- Existence: 1925-10-28 - 2006-03-27
Nationality
Scottish
Found in 1954 Collections and/or Records:
And How Many Divisions Has Arcady / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Manduca, John Borg., 1979
Depicts an armored tank camouflaged with vegetation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Angelique et Medor / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Sloan, Nicholas., 1981
Angelique and Medoro were classical lovers who, whether in celebration or complaint, carved their names on trees. The image is an abstracted version of a tree with their names inscribed upon it. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Anthology / Finlay, Alec, editor ; Finlay IH ; MacLow J ; Cutts S ; Waanders H ; Clark TA ; Buchler P ; Tuttle R ; Finlay A ; Weiner L., 1997
The labels are printed poems in varied typefaces and colors that are referenced to the titles written on each page. The handwritten titles appear to be done by different people but their origins are not identified. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Anticipations / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1982
This booklet consists of philosophical quotations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Aphrodite of the Terror / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; de Valdivia, Marco., 1987
The card depicts a black and white photograph of a sculpture of Aphrodite with her right arm covering her breasts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Apollinaire: A Variation / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1997
This poem, based on "Il Pleut" by Apollinaire, has drawings of little leaves instead of the letters. This symbolizes the falling of leaves in the fall rather than rain as in the original poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Apollinaire: A Variation / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary; Apollinaire G., 1997
This poem, based on "Il Pleut" by Apollinaire, has drawings of little leaves instead of the letters. This symbolizes the falling of leaves in the fall rather than rain as in the original poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Apollo and Daphne (after Bernini) / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Costley, Ron., 1977
This is a poster of the same image of the print in the Sackner Archive printed for the Cambridge Poetry Festival at the Kettle's Yard Gallery. The bottom edge contains details of the exhibition. Finlay cites two references to this image as follows: Ovid's Metamorphoses and Wittkower's The Sculptures of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Historical Research Unit, Uniforms of the SS. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Apollo and Daphne: Design for a Wall (1) / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Costley, Ron; Hincks, Gary., 1992
In this version of the print the figures of Apollo in red and Daphne in green are combined into a green tree. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Apollo and Daphne: Design for a Wall (2) / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Costley, Ron; Hincks, Gary., 1992
In this version of the print the figures of Apollo and Daphne are outlined in black and are combined into an outlined tree all against the image of a drawn black brick wall. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Apollo in Strathclyde / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Alexander, Marius., 1986
This card depicts a black and white photograph of a field in Strathclyde near Finlay's home. It is captioned, The wine-red sea, the turnip-marbled field. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Apples / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1995
The poem describes Finlay's impression of a Pissaro landscape painting involving apple trees. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Arbre de la Liberte / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987
ThIs poem is presented in the shape of a tree. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Arbre (Tree) / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1979
Poem lists words related to the image of a tree. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Arcadia / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Oliver, George., 1973
The image is an armored tank camoulaged with green leaves and background suggesting a garden but there is a contradiction to the title which refers to the pastoral mountainous region in ancient Greece. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Arcadia: W.D. Property / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Harvey, Micheal., 1996
The image on this card reads in bold type "Arcadia." Below it in smaller type is W.D. Property. The latter relates to the action taken by the Strathclyde Region taxation office on Little Sparta in 1995. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Arcadian Gliders / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Wheatley, Steve; Lane B., 1981
Consists of a boxed set of nine papercard model gliders to be cut from the prints. Each glider has been embellished with a military decal of the countries that fought World War II along with the name of a garden plant that has been printed on the rear wing. This was published in an unlimited edition. William Allen comments: Outer box made by the cult small press publisher Brian Lane. Box contains bag of elastic bands, nine silkscreen prints of different Arcadian glider kits and an instruction booklet. "Each airplane is embellished with a military decal and the name of an appropriate common garden feature has been printed on the rear wing. When the airplanes have been constructed, they may either be displayed together as a squadron or, if you have access to a garden, they should be carefully placed in the relevant spot to act as markers or name tags and a pleasing focus of interest for when the flowers are out of season." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Arcadian Revolutionary and Avant Gardener / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 2014
Jennifer R. Gross has contributed a scholarly, in depth essay "Them's Fightin' Words" to the catalogue. Her research and interpretations of Finlay's work add significantly to the critical texts of this multi- talented artist. The exhibition contained 112 pieces by Finaly and his collaboartors. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.