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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:

The Water's Breast and ripples / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Gunn, Ronald., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-11880-12101
Scope and Contents

This depicts a stone sculpture engraved with the title. The calligraphy of the word "ripples" is formed such that it could also be read "nipples." The verso os rubberstamped indicating that Ronald Gunn holds the copyright - it is not depicted in the Finlay book of Prints 1963-1997. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

The Weed Boat Masters Ticket: Preliminary Test (Part Two) / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Gardner, Ian., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-11722-11940
Dates: 1971
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets

The Wild Hawthorn Art Test / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Fidler, Martin., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-11759-11977
Dates: 1977
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets

The Wild Hawthorn Wonder Book of Boats / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Fidler, Martin., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-11260-11475
Dates: 1975
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets

Thermidor, 1994

 Item — Box 147: [Barcode: 31858072458007]
Identifier: CC-12767-13032
Scope and Contents

Stephan Bann provides an explanation of the poem in the accompanying leaflet as follows. Thermidor was the month in the French Revolutionary calendar when the summer heat was its most intense, and the grain at its ripest. It was also the month, in 1794, when Robespierre and his followers met their deaths at the guillotine. In the image of this poem, the abrupt cleavage of the word, THER MIDOR, and of the figured sheaf of flowers, suggest the termination of the revolution in its Jacobian sense. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS / Ian Hamilton Finlay

Thermidor, after Kate Greenaway / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-11087-11302
Scope and Contents

Thermodor indicates a name of the month during the French Republican calendar. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Thermidor / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Clark, Laurie., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-10662-10871
Scope and Contents

Each poem consists of a drawing by Laurie Clark and a caption by Finlay dealing with the Republican calendar (France 1793-1805) during the first week of the revolution in 1794 in which the Robespierrists were executed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

These are the Bee's Temples. Listen. / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-11085-11300
Dates: 1992
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

'Thing' Poems / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-12949-13241
Scope and Contents

Finlay defines concrete poetry as follows, "There is a difference between a poem which is 'about' a thing and a poem which IS a thing - its own thing, but not necessarily without reference to something else." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Third Anniversary of Strathclyde Region's Assault on the Garden Temple / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-12998-13290
Scope and Contents

The recto text deals with Finlay's artworks stolen by the Strathclyde region's tax collectors. The verso quotes a text by Blunt on the Paintings of Poussin dealing with TERROR and VIRTUE in Arcadia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Third Anniversary of the First Battle of Little Sparta / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-12096-12320
Scope and Contents

This card was mailed to the Sackners by Finlay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

This Book Is a Movie / Bowles, Jerry G., editor ; Russell, Tony, editor ; Arakawa ; Cobbing B ; Finlay IH ; Furnival J ; Gins M ; Kostelanetz R ; Morgan E ; Ockerse T ; Phillips T ; Saroyan A ; Schwerner A ; Solt ME ; Weiner L ; Williams E ; Williams J ; Acconci V ; Asher E ; Atchley D ; Barry R ; Bochner M ; Clark TA ; Fernbach-Flarscheim C ; Hompson DD ; Hyde S ; John F ; Johnson R ; LeWitt S ; Moore AD., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-23476-23921
Scope and Contents

This book was also designated a Delta Original by the publisher. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

this flag is a hull/ this hull is a flag / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-35413-37148
Dates: 1998
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

This is Visual Poetry. No.30/Apr / nick-e melville ; Finlay IH., 2010

 Item
Identifier: CC-51970-73072
Scope and Contents On the back cover and internet, it is stated that nick-e melville is a scottish poet who does visual stuff and found stuff. his first collection of visual poetry, selections and dissections, was published by otoliths press in 2010. he also does shellsuit massacre (cf. poem 7) with rodney relax: found poetry social commentary to guitar techno. some of these poems, all now in colour, appeared in these places: blazevox, one less magazine, otoliths and sleeping fish; the 10th poem appears on the poet's left forearm, underside. nick-e says: "these are basically all the pieces i've done in colour, and, curiously, there's a higher usage of mixixed media than in my other visual work, including handwriting (poem 12) and skin. some were made using tippex (whiteout) on papers and credit card junk mail (snow pake is an archaic term, from the 70s and 80s). others were created using circles from bags of blue circle cement. i'd always admired the targetesque design, and the blue-on-buff bags, so...
Dates: 2010
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

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

 Item
Identifier: CC-35232-36966
Scope and Contents

The poem consists of a four line description of thistledown. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Thomas Jefferson's Garden Book / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Kedik, Stephanie., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-11812-12031
Dates: 1986
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets

Thornier / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Boulton, Janet., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-35386-37121
Scope and Contents

The card depicts a thorn with barbs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Thornier / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Boulton, Janet., 1997

 Item — Folder 35: [Barcode: 31858072459948]
Identifier: CC-34974-36691
Scope and Contents

The print depicts a thorn with barbs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES / TO BE PROCESSED / Ian Hamilton Finlay

Thoughts on Waldemar / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-11813-12032
Dates: 1986
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Three Gates: On the way to Little Sparta, 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-30158-31557
Scope and Contents

This Christmas presentation book subtitled "On the Way to Little Sparta" was conceived by Finlay and photographed by Robin Gillanders. It relates the closing of Finlay's famed garden by the Scottish government. The sign on the first gate into the garden reads, "Following the authority's action against the Garden Temple, Little Sparta is closed to the public." The second gate sign reads, "Strathclyde Region made war on Little Sparta - Strathclyde Region is no more." The third gate sign reads, "Closed with the support of The Scottish Arts Council." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / BOOKS

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