Das Gepflügte Land / The Fluted Land
ArtistDesigned/Sent by
Ian Hamilton Finlay
(Nassau, Bahamas, 1925 - 2006)
ArtistDesigned by
John R. Nash
(Vermont, USA, born 1938)
RecipientReceived by
Joyce Laing
(Aberdeen, Scotland, 1939 - 2022)
PublisherPublished by
Wild Hawthorn Press
(founded 1961)
Datec.1998
Object NameLeaf in Folder
Mediumpaper, acetate, ink
ClassificationsPrints
DimensionsFolded: 17 x 28.5cm
AcquisitionPresented in 2010 by Joyce Laing OBE.
Copyright© Estate of Ian Hamilton Finlay
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDAG017584
About MeLoose leaf of acetate in brown paper folder co-designed by Ian Hamilton Finlay and John R Nash, published by the Wild Hawthorn Press. The back inside cover of the folder has the title printed on it - das gepflügte Land . the fluted land - and a loose leaf of semi-opaque acetate is placed on top with the publication detail and the following subtitle:A permissible (mis)translation expands the suggestiveness of the German and evokes a range of associations with classical Antiquity.
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.
Great North of Scotland Railway
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