861 research outputs found
Ian Hamilton Finlay
No full textBetween 1997 and 2013 Hogan produced a series of paintings, drawings and prints of Little Sparta (the garden created by Ian Hamilton Finlay in Scotland) and of Hamilton Finlay. The ‘portraits’ of Hamilton Finlay were painted in fragments as a presence in his garden. There was a relationship between the act of him walking towards or away from Hogan, and that was how she painted him - approaching, passing by and leaving. In 2014 this series of work was featured in an exhibion at the Yale Center for British Art and in 2015 the painting 'Ian Hamilton Finlay' was acquired for the YCBA's collection with funds from the bequest of Daniel S. Calk. On May 11 2016 the YCBA reopened after a 16-month renovation to the Louis Kahn building. Hogan's painting was hung in the Long Gallery, which had been restored to its original seven-bay sweep, with historical works hung with recent acquisitions, in this case Hogan's 'Ian Hamilton Finlay"
Ian Hamilton Finlay : Inter Artes et Naturam
No full textThe authors trace Finlay's use of the garden as a vehicle for poetic and philosophical inscriptions, focusing on interventions by the artist in Stonypath Garden. Finlay offers a few personal thoughts about neo-classicism. Brief biographical notes
Ernst Jandl - Ian Hamilton Finlay
No full textWas haben ein schottischer bildender Künstler, berühmt für seine Land-Art, und ein österreichischer Dichter, vorwiegend bekannt für seine Lautgedichte, gemeinsam? Sehr viel. Denn es handelt sich dabei um Ernst Jandl und Ian Hamilton Finlay. Verbunden durch eine tiefe Freundschaft nahmen sie sowohl am Leben des Freundes, als auch an dessen künstlerischem Schaffen mit großem Interesse teil. Rund 20 Jahre intensiven Briefkontakts berichten davon, wurden aber bis dato in der Forschung noch nicht entsprechend wahrgenommen. Die vorliegende Arbeit nimmt nun den Briefwechsel, zu finden im Literaturarchiv der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, als Ausgangspunkt um die Aspekte der Freundschaft, Zusammenarbeit und wechselseitigen Beeinflussung zwischen Ernst Jandl und Ian Hamilton Finlay zu behandeln. Es wird versucht, das ungemein weite Ausmaß der intensiven und angeregten Zusammenarbeit der beiden Künstler aufzuzeigen. Diese reicht von Gedichtadaptionen über Diskussionen zu Übersetzungsfragen bis hin zu gemeinsamen Projekten. Beispiele dafür wären Gedichtveröffentlichungen von eigens für diesen Anlass verfassten Gedichten Jandls in der von Finlay herausgegebenen Zeitschrift POTH – Poor.Old.Tired.Horse. oder Finlays Werk Ocean Stripe 5 in welchem er Textauszüge Jandls, Paul de Vrees und Kurt Schwitters montageartig und kommentarlos zu einem ganz eigenständigen neuen Werk zusammenfügt.
Die vorliegende Arbeit möchte eine neue Sichtweise auf das Werk und Schaffen von Ernst Jandl und Ian Hamilton Finlay anbieten. Bisher beschäftigte sich die Forschung immer nur entweder mit Jandl, oder mit Finlay. Die Frage nach Zusammenarbeit und wechselseitiger Beeinflussung beider Künstler ist daher ein ganz neuer Zugang zu dem Werk von Jandl und Finlay
Ian Hamilton Finlay, 1997-2006
No full textHogan’s triptych, ‘Ian Hamilton Finlay 1997-2006’, represents her research into the relationship between portraiture and biography.
Since her first visit to Finlay in 1997, the poet suffered a series of illnesses and Hogan’s penetrating studies document the passage of eight years on a remarkable individual. Her work was informed by observing him in a number of different environments including ‘Little Sparta’, the extraordinarily self-expressive garden which he has evolved over 30 years
Homage: Ian Hamilton Finlay and Hans Arp
No full textPaper on the creative and conceptual relationship between the Scottish artist and poet Ian Hamilton Finlay and Hans Arp
Nature Over Again: The Garden Art of Ian Hamilton Finlay
No full textBook Review of Nature Over Again: The Garden Art of Ian Hamilton Finlay / John Dixon Hunt.--ISBN 978-1-86189-393-2. Reviewed by Ann Armstrong
Ian Hamilton Finlay: Scottish Futurist
No full textChapter 2 examines the formative period in Ian Hamilton Finlay’s career when he encountered the work of like-minded poets in the United States, including Niedecker. Chapter 2 argues that Finlay’s use of folk forms in his poetry during the late 1950s articulates a critical response to the orthodoxies of the ‘Scottish Renaissance’ at that time. Finlay counters what he perceived as the Renaissance’s cultural myopia and literary pretensions by developing a faux-naif folk poetry that consciously evoked the doggerel of the Scottish poet William McGonagall, as well as with an early twentieth-century Russian avant-garde. In doing so, this chapter argues, Finlay strategically situates his work in an international tradition of avant-garde innovation that subverts Renaissance nationalism.</p
On Liberty and Art
No full textOne-day conference organised by Dr Malcolm Quinn
This conference, organised by Quinn in collaboration with Tate Britain, was the latest in a series of engagements by Quinn with the legacy of JS Mill and the idea of an aesthetics of liberty, beginning with an address to Mill’s ‘On Liberty’in a co-authored book, then developed through a paper at the JS Mill Bicentennial conference at University College London (6th April 2006) and another at the conference ‘Liberty, Human Values and Utilitarianism,’ Yokohama National University, Japan (9th -11th September 2006).
This latter paper, initially delivered at a conference that included many of the most important researchers in the field, made a decisive shift from discussion of the epistemology of Millian liberty to an address to questions of art, sensibility and aesthetics. It formed part of Quinn’s development of ideas for the ‘On Liberty and Art’ conference at Tate Britain, which has initiated a WCA research project investigating frameworks and reference points for a discourse on liberty conducted through art practice, with presentations from the artists John Russell, Dave Beech, Bob and Roberta Smith, Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Amanda Beech and Roman Vasseur.
Quinn’s opening address isolated the question of aesthetic liberty as a ‘sensibility of freedom’ and discussed how artists are included within a current media conversation on the crisis of liberty and free speech. Quinn also discussed the work of Ian Hamilton Finlay as exemplifying a discourse on liberty developed through art practice that directly challenged the utilitarian model of liberty as non-coercion and equal distribution developed by Mill and Bentham. Quinn also included reference to the ‘rights to art’ cited in the UN Declaration of human rights of 1948, which produce a conflation of collective/moral and personal rights that have influenced current understanding of the relationship of liberty and art
'Beauty tradition experiment' : Scotland, the avant-garde, and landscape in the work of Ian Hamilton Finlay and Alec Finlay
No full textThis is a critical study of Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925 - 2006) and Alec Finlay (b. 1966), analysing the ways in which they developed their practices as poets, artists and publishers. This thesis uses Alec Finlay's concept of the homely avant-garde as the starting point for an exploration of both poets' engagement with the relationship between art, society and the environment. Both poets' work is animated by the interplay of tradition and experiment, a relationship that is reflected in their treatment of place and conception of dwelling. I aim to show that while their work shares certain formal interests and cultural contexts, their responses to them are quite distinctive.This thesis builds on existing commentary through close textual analysis and extensive use of archival material including public and private correspondence. It is to my knowledge the first scholarly study of Alec Finlay, drawing on his work andinterviews. My project brings new theoretical approaches to the subject. I take a broadly cultural materialist approach, locating the Finlays' avant-garde poetics and art practice within their original contexts of post-war Scottish culture and the international small-press avant-garde. Later chapters consider the Finlays' treatment of landscape and the environment. I apply the pastoral theory of William Marx, Raymond Williams and Terry Gifford to Ian Hamilton Finlay's short stories and garden poems, exploring the tensions between nature and culture, country and city. In my analysis of Alec Finlay's eco-poetry and art, I reject Heideggerian ecocriticism's emphasis on poetry as a medium for the revelation of man's essential state of being in nature. Instead, I look to the geophilosophy of Deleuze and Guatarri in order to suggest that Alec Finlay's social and environmental art brings forth a series of becomings through its emphasis on pragmatic,co-operative and sustainable forms of creativity.This is a critical study of Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925 - 2006) and Alec Finlay (b. 1966), analysing the ways in which they developed their practices as poets, artists and publishers. This thesis uses Alec Finlay's concept of the homely avant-garde as the starting point for an exploration of both poets' engagement with the relationship between art, society and the environment. Both poets' work is animated by the interplay of tradition and experiment, a relationship that is reflected in their treatment of place and conception of dwelling. I aim to show that while their work shares certain formal interests and cultural contexts, their responses to them are quite distinctive.This thesis builds on existing commentary through close textual analysis and extensive use of archival material including public and private correspondence. It is to my knowledge the first scholarly study of Alec Finlay, drawing on his work andinterviews. My project brings new theoretical approaches to the subject. I take a broadly cultural materialist approach, locating the Finlays' avant-garde poetics and art practice within their original contexts of post-war Scottish culture and the international small-press avant-garde. Later chapters consider the Finlays' treatment of landscape and the environment. I apply the pastoral theory of William Marx, Raymond Williams and Terry Gifford to Ian Hamilton Finlay's short stories and garden poems, exploring the tensions between nature and culture, country and city. In my analysis of Alec Finlay's eco-poetry and art, I reject Heideggerian ecocriticism's emphasis on poetry as a medium for the revelation of man's essential state of being in nature. Instead, I look to the geophilosophy of Deleuze and Guatarri in order to suggest that Alec Finlay's social and environmental art brings forth a series of becomings through its emphasis on pragmatic,co-operative and sustainable forms of creativity
Assessment of the Finlay Journal Scientific Production According to the Web of Science
No full textFoundation: bibliometry allows to analize the scientific production of a country, institution or particular author. The best journals worldwide do bibliometric studies to determine if they are competitive with their pairs in a thematic knowledge area. Objective: to evaluate the scientific production of the Finlay Journal in the period 2015-2017. Method: a bibliometric study was realized in which he production analyzed is done during the years 2015 to 2017, the information was extracted up to January 7th 2018, data base from the Web of Science was used. The 144 articles examined were imported to a data base elaborated, with this purpose, using Excel Microsoft. The variables considered were: year of the publication, author’s production, institutions, countries, topics, languages, average quotes per publication and number of authors per article. In addition indicators h, g and e were used. The results were presented in tables in order to be able to evaluate the scientific production of the journal. Results: topics related with internal medicine predominated, the most productive author was Miguel Serra Valdés, also the most prolific institution was the Gustavo Aldereguía Lima University Hospital, Cuba is the country with the highest contribution of articles. Conclusion: the Finlay Journal has progressively been consolidating its quality and impact in the competitive environment within the Web of Science
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