Ian Hamilton Finlay, 1925 Bahamas – 2006 Scotland
‘Poursuites Révolutionnaires’ (1987)
Artist book/catalogue published to accompany exhibition ‘Poursuites Révolutionnaires’ 20 September to 13 December 1987 at Jouy-en-Josas. Catalogue essays by Yves Abrioux and Jean de Loisy. Text and images by the artist of the French Revolution with 9 loose sheets with texts:
1. You cannot step into the same revolution twice.
2. ‘Who are these men who have no streets named after them?’ – French person of 1987, on The Committee of Public Safety, 1794.
3. The French Revolution was something other than the French nation on the psychoanalysts couch.
4. Three Parties in The Convention: The Mountain. The Plain. The Ravine.
5. In the Picturesque landscape of the Revolution the wildest of the banditti were all ex-lawyers.
6. For the best of the Jacobins the Revolution was intended as a pastoral whose Virgil was Rousseau.
7. Revolutions conceived in the fields are very different from Revolutions conceived in the cellar.
8. It is not true that the blade was terrible: it was Terrible.
9. In the first chapters of the Revolution when the ribbons were still on the haycocks…?Edition of 3000. Fondation Cartier Pour L’Art Contemporain, Jouy-en-Josas
Grahame, Noreen (ed.) 1991, Artists’ Books – The Catalogue, grahame galleries + editions, Brisbane.
Murray, Graeme 1990, Ian Hamilton Finlay & The Wild Hawthorn Press, 1958-1990, Graeme Murray, Edinburgh.
Homage to Robert Lax (1974)
A book of concrete poetry, some in red/white and some in black/white. 12 pp. 25.5 x 10.5 cm. The Wild Hawthorn Press, Scotland.
Büchler, Pavel 1986, Turning over the pages, Kettle’s Yard Gallery, Cambridge
Murray, Graeme 1990, Ian Hamilton Finlay & The Wild Hawthorn Press, 1958-1990, Graeme Murray, Edinburgh.
A Boatyard (1969)
Twelve drawings of boats, eleven of which are name for:
A Boat, for Messrs Tait, Morgan and Garioch – Scottish Zulu
A Boat, for Ian Hamilton – Naggar
A Boat, for Derek Stanford – Ramsgate Tosher
A Boat, for Bob Cobbing – Barking Fish-Carrier?A Boat, for Stuart Montgomery – Swim Header
A Boat, for Arnold Wesker – Kofschip
A Boat, for George MacBeth – Schokker
A Boat, for Edward Lucie-Smith – Sharpie
A Boat, for A Alvarez – Bomb Ketch
A Boat, for Cavan McCarthy – Rye Cod Smack
A Boat, for Ian Hamilton Finlay – Shrimper
Printed in black on dark green/blue card one on each fold of the concertina format. 12.7 x 10.4 cm closed. Edition unknown. The Wild Hawthorn Press, Scotland.
Murray, Graeme 1990, Ian Hamilton Finlay & The Wild Hawthorn Press, 1958-1990, Graeme Murray, Edinburgh.