Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Finlay, Ian Hamilton
Contains 47 Results:
Dropping Zone of the Rose Petals Recollection, 1992
[Letter to Martin Fidler], 1967
This is a request to Martin Fidler, the bookseller who sold the Sackners the Finlay Archive, for out-of-print books by Confucius and by the philosopher J-H. Newman. It gives an indication of the seriousness of Finlay's depth of intellectual reading. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Ferrea Virga Est / Stay-Sail, 1977
This print is a template for a design of covers for jampots base upon the image of sundials. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Twine Is Jacobin; String is Girondist, 1990
The twine is blue and the string is white. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Marble Arrow, 1984
The card is shaped like an arrow and has been made from marbled paper, a pun on the poem printed along an inside fold, "The Marble Arrow Always Hits Its Mark!" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Table Talk of Ian Hamilton Finlay, 1985
This finely printed book consists of a listing of aphorisms such as 1) Vengeance is an act of good faith, 2) Concrete poems were thought childish because they were seen but not heard, 3) Schemes for making a great deal of money usually cost a lot. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Highlights: A Homage to Andre Derain, 1997
The photographs consist of images of tree trunks and branches painted by Janet Boulton and photographed by Robin Gillanders. The images satisfy the caption on the first page, viz., HIGHLIGHT, n., a mark, sign, or medal, awarded by the light. The book was printed and bound by Colin Sackett. One copy of this book was given by Finlay to the Sackners as a Christmas gift. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
