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Finlay, Ian Hamilton, 1925-2006

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1925 October 28 - 2006 March 27

Nationality

Scottish

Found in 1986 Collections and/or Records:

Cythera Plan / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Lyle, Peter., 1979

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Identifier: CC-12055-12279
Scope and Contents

This depicts plans for a landscaped version of the poem Cythera first published as a booklet in 1965. The Sackner Archive holds the Archive for this work entitled Botanics "Cythera." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Dada Spoof Is Elegant Revenge for Edinburgh / Lister, David; Finlay IH., 1989

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Identifier: CC-06952-7075
Scope and Contents

Article describes the St. Just Vigilantes' defense of Ian Hamilton Finlay after the French government cancelled his commission stating that the artist was "inspired by Nazism." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Dada spoof is elegant revenge for Edinburgh[CR]Dada Spoof is Elegant Revenge / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1988

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Identifier: CC-57805-10001057
Scope and Contents

Deals with posters put up during the Festival of Dada and Surrealism supporting Finlay's cause when his work was cancelled by the French government. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Daddy, What Did You Do in the Little Sparta War / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1983

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Identifier: CC-12080-12304
Scope and Contents

This card depicts a Norman Rockwell-like image of a daughter sitting on a father's lap and inquiring about something she has read in a book. The title caption related to Finlay's battles with the Strathclyde tax collectors. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

das gepflugte Land - the fluted land / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Costley, Ron., 1998

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Identifier: CC-35418-37153
Scope and Contents

There is another card by Finlay held by the Sackner Archive with the same title but without an image. This card depicts an image of a furrowed field. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

das gepflugte Land - the fluted land / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Nash, John R.., 1998

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Identifier: CC-35423-37158
Scope and Contents

There are two other cards by Finlay with the same title, held by the Sackner Archive. In this print, the image is a calligraphic rendering of the title by Nash. Finlay remarks, "A permissable (mis)translation expands the suggestiveness of the German and evokes a range of associations with classical antiquity." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Dating the Navy / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Ivancic, Nina., 1998

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Identifier: CC-35400-37135
Scope and Contents

The poem reads "Dating the Navy -Val and the image is a red silhouette of a Japanese aircraft of WWII, the Aichi Navy Type Carrier Bomber." Val was an Allied code name for this airplane. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

de Man / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1989

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Identifier: CC-13004-13296
Scope and Contents

The image on this card is a French rabbit hunt with people on horses acompanied with dogs and the name de Man inscribed on the body of the rabbit. de Man was the site of Finlay's ultimately rejected commission for the city of Paris. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Definitions Of Lawns (2) / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Harvey, Michael., 1974

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Identifier: CC-11989-12212
Scope and Contents

This depicts a garden U-Boat conning tower sculpture (metaphor for silo?) and a cow separated from it by a moat. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Delight / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Hincks, Gary., 1996

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Identifier: CC-35261-36995
Scope and Contents

The poem deals with opening the hold of a fishing boat and seeing that the nets are bulging with fish. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Der Tag / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Costley, Ron., 1972

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Identifier: CC-12519-12746
Scope and Contents

The caption "Der Tag" (the day) in old German letters appears under a drawing of a steamboat. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Designed Words for Designed Worlds: The International Concrete Poetry Movement, 1955-1971 [A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy] / Hilder, Jamie ; Finlay IH ; DeCampos A ; Nichol bp ; Pignatari D ; DeCampos H ; Chopin H ; Roth D ; Williams E ; McLuhan M ; Fiore Q ; Bory JF ; Burda V ; Knowles A ; Gomringer E ; Hirsal J ; Grogerova B ; Azeredo R ; Grunewald JL ; Gappmayr H ; Garnier I ; Garnier P ; Mon F ; Solt ME ; Fernbach-Flarscheim C ; Andre C ; Mayer HJ ; Graham D ; Acconci V ; Sarenco ; Sharkey JJ ; Ferro L ; Thomkins A ; Scobie S ; Blaine J ; McCaffery S ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK ; Watson S ; Fahlstrom O ; Dohl R ; Arp H ; VanDoesburg T ; Bill M ; Weaver M ; Kostelanetz R ; Phillips T ; Weiner L ; Ruscha E ; Cage J ; MacLow J ; Isou I ; Houedard DS ; Furnival J ; Bann S ; Bowler B ; Klonsky M ; Cook G ; Scobie S ; Chopin H ; DeVree P ; Grunewald JL ; Goldsmith K ; Kotz L ; Flynt H ; Art & Language ; LeWitt S ; Kosuth J ; Smithson R ; Graham D ; Siegelaub S ; Rosler M ; Cordeiro W ; Drucker J ; Kitasono K., 2010

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Identifier: CC-52892-74030
Scope and Contents In this thesis, Hilder provides new concepts and arguments about the genesis of concrete poetry backed up by a serious interpretation and collation of published material. He relies heavily on critical texts in three full length books written in English, Liselotte Gumpel's "Concrete Poetry" from East and West Germany (1976), David Seaman's Concrete Poetry in France (1981) and Caroline Bayard's The New Poetics in Canada and Quebec. All are held by the Sackner Archive.Hilder "argues that the critical gaps in concrete poetry criticism, both contemporaneous and subsequent to the concrete poetry movement, have fallen into (1) the national fallacy: the attempt to read an international movement within a national framework; (2) the ancient fallacy: the attempt to link concrete poetry with visual poetry and word imagery dating back to ancient cultures; (3) the theoretical fallacy: the attempt retrospectively to read onto concrete poetry the post-structuralist theories of language that...
Dates: 2010

Desmoulins Collections: The Desmoulins Connection / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1988

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Identifier: CC-12174-12398
Scope and Contents

The poems are printed on different colored paper stock and deal with Finlay's rejected commission for the city of Paris. Several are quotes from French revolutionary protagonists while others are vintage Finlay, e.g., "One speaks cynically of Fair Play till one has had to deal with the French, Since 1944 Paris has been occupied by the French, Allegation, n. in France, an Occupational hazard." etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Dialogue / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987

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Identifier: CC-12120-12344
Scope and Contents

This is a polemic against Headley and Meulenkamp, the authors of "Follies: A National Trust Guide." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987