Swastika
Artist
Ian Hamilton Finlay
(Nassau, Bahamas, 1925 - 2006)
PublisherPublished by
Wild Hawthorn Press
(founded 1961)
Date1988
Object NameBooklet
Mediumink, card
ClassificationsPrints
DimensionsBooklet: 10.1 x 12.5cm
AcquisitionPresented in 2010 by Joyce Laing OBE.
Copyright© Estate of Ian Hamilton Finlay (2009)
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDAG017446
About MeBooklet with pink cover, containing text/ poem, which reads:''Swastika, n. a swear sign.
Swastika, n. for the erudite and those with an alibi to establish, a sign of peace.
Swastika, n. a sign denoting Nazi sympathies. See especially the photomontages of John Heartfield and drawings of George Grosz.
for Stephane Paoli, Catherine Millet, Michel Blum
Committee of Public Safety, Little Sparta''
Black ink on white paper, 8 pages, stapled.
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.
James Cromar Watt
Early 19th Century
