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Title:
Wildflower
Brief description:
printed card
Collection:
Aberdeen Archives, Gallery and Museums
Accession date:
21/01/2010
Acquisition method:
Gift
Associated concept:
Prints
Associated date:
1992
Associated person:
Ian Hamilton Finlay
Credit line:
Presented in 2010 by Joyce Laing OBE.
Current location:
View by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Dimension:
8.5 x 11.5cm
Inscription content:
recto: Wildflower,n. verso: Representing Nature, the opposite to all that is artificial, the wildflower is a 'text' which can be moralising, or ideological, or indeed subversive. We only think of the role of Nature (and of wildflowers) in the French Revolution and the writings of Rousseau, which preceded it. (signature) Ian Hamilton Finlay Gary Hincks Wild Hawthorn Press
Inscription position:
recto and verso
Inscription type:
text
Material:
printed ink on card
Object number:
ABDAG017181
Object production date:
Date - earliest / single:
1992
Date - latest:
1992
Object status:
Accessioned object
Responsible department/section:
Fine Art
Right type:
© Estate of Ian Hamilton Finlay (2009)
Text:
This work is part of an archive that belonged to Joyce Laing OBE. The artist, Ian Hamilton Finlay, was a personal friend and sent her an example of each new poem print and multiple as it was made. recto: Wildflower,n. verso: Representing Nature, the opposite to all that is artificial, the wildflower is a 'text' which can be moralising, or ideological, or indeed subversive. We only think of the role of Nature (and of wildflowers) in the French Revolution and the writings of Rousseau, which preceded it. (signature) Ian Hamilton Finlay Gary Hincks Wild Hawthorn Press http://www.ianhamiltonfinlay.com/1992.html

Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/8da5ba05-4a71-3d1d-afc3-2f0464797591

Use licence for this record: CC 0

Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/8da5ba05-4a71-3d1d-afc3-2f0464797591, Aberdeen Archives, Gallery and Museums, CC 0

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