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Finlay, Sue

 Person

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

The Forest and the Revolution, 1981

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Finlay, Ian Hamilton: [Barcode: 31858072491461]
Scope and Contents

Flyer advertising a series of exhibitions entitled "The Forest and the Revolution" held from May-October 1981 in Stonypath Garden and the Garden Temple in Finlay's Little Sparta in Lanarck, Scotland. Exhibitions included "Souvenirs of the French Revolution", "Nine Columns", "Names on Trees", "Talismans and Signifiers", "Classic Landscapes", "Pantheon of the Revolution", "Zeno and Epicurus", "Raspberry Camouflage", and "Spartan and Old Roman Promenades", as well as other publications and plantings.

Dates: 1981

Un Jardin Revolutionnaire, 1988

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Finlay, Ian Hamilton: [Barcode: 31858072491461]
Identifier: CC-11772-11991
Scope and Contents

This proposal for a revolutionary garden in Versailles was never carried out owing to a political perception in France that Finlay espoused pro-Nazi, anti-semitic views (this opinion is not shared by the Sackners). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988