Finlay, Ian Hamilton, 1925-2006
Dates
- Existence: 1925 October 28 - 2006 March 27
Nationality
Scottish
Found in 1988 Collections and/or Records:
Two Billows / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1980
Two Elegies / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1997
The cards each provide commercial specifications of a sailboat, one marked sold, the other withdrawn. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Two Examples / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1991
Two Horizons, 1998
The spools of thread in a box were mailed to the Sackners as a Christmas gift from Finlay. One spool has blue, the other black thread, serving as a metaphor for clear and stormy weather, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Two Interpolations / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1996
The narrative compares classical Greek arcadia with the French revolution. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Two Landscapes / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Gardner, Ian; Cozens, John Robert., 1991
Two Landscapes of the Sublime / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1989
Two Milestones Two Lives / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1995
Varennes signifies the city that was the place where the King of France was captured during the French revolution and Vincennes the place where Rousseau had a vision that "...progress had not purified morals at all, but corrupted them disastrously." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Two One-Line Poems for Posties / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1996
The poem deals with Finlay's vision of the arriving and departing postal van. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Two Poems (1) / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1993
This poem is entitled Des Esseintes and reads The muddied- colours of - the mouthwash - cocktails. The title translate in English to boredom. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Two Poems (2) / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1993
The cover depicts a cap with a Spitfire (British WWII fighter airplane) roundel. The poem reads, A cap - of liberty- with a Spitfire -roundel -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Two Poems / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1990
The poems are printed on facing pages. One is entitled Tombstone and reads, Sundial - without - a gnomon. The other is entitled Marble and reads Parachute - of the gods. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Two Poetry Gardens: Giving a Voice to the Genius Loci / Butler, Frances; Finlay IH., 1984
Essay describes Ian-Hamilton Finlay's garden Stonypath in Scotland. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Two Proposals for the Munich Ehrentemple Sites / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Appleton, Ian., 1993
The images deal with Finlay's notions of denazification of the Ehrentemple sites. In Finlay's bookprints 1963-1997, this work is annotated as teo drawings with commentary but they are probably lithographis. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Two Questions / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1993
Two Translations / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1983
Two Trees / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Healy, Richard., 1982
Two Visions / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987
Printed by Stellar Press, this is an attack on the adverse criticism of Finlay's Garden Temple for its architecture in the book, Follies, A National Trust Guide. In this print, Finlay reviews the etymology of the word "folly" and notes that it is derived from the latin word "follis" meaning a ball, balloon or bellows. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Tye Cringle / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1972
Finlay's Christmas card consists of a list of 13 words which succinctly tell the Christmas story. The first several words seem to be made-up words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
U&lc. No.3/Sum / Licko Z ; Caxton W ; Ray M ; cummings ee ; Thomas D ; Roth D ; Lamantia P ; Finlay IH ; Herbert G ; Marinetti FT ; Morgenstern C ; Apollinaire G ; Gomringer E ; Muller Ma ; Costin J., 1990
This issue contains illustrated articles on the genesis of the letter 'L,' film posters, and "Love Letters." Allan Haley contributed a biography entitled, "William Caxton: The Modest Translator." Marion Muller's essay "Meant to Be Seen and Not Heard" about concrete and shaped poetry dealt with an exhibition of Arion Press' Shaped Poetry portfolio at MJS Books & Graphics in New York. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.