After the German: Das Gepflügte Land
Artist
Ian Hamilton Finlay
(Nassau, Bahamas, 1925 - 2006)
Date1998
Mediumprinted ink on card
ClassificationsPrints
Dimensions12 x 15cm
AcquisitionPresented in 2010 by Joyce Laing OBE.
Copyright© Estate of Ian Hamilton Finlay (2009)
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDAG017230
About MeThis 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.After the German :
das gepflugte Land/the fluted Land
pflug-plough/hugelig-undulating/flug-flight/flugel-wing
'All that the Genius presages of higher regions in golden morning hours.'
Holderin, Hyperion
'Nourish him with the milk of a better age, and suffer him to come to maturity under a distant Grecian sky.' Schiller, On the Aesthetic Education of Man
Ian Hamilton Finlay, Wild Hawthorn Press 1998
http://www.ianhamiltonfinlay.com/1998.html
Ian Hamilton Finlay
Ian Hamilton Finlay
Ian Hamilton Finlay
