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Capital, n. a Republican Crown

Artist Ian Hamilton Finlay (Nassau, Bahamas, 1925 - 2006)

PublisherPublished by Wild Hawthorn Press (founded 1961)

Artist Lucius Burckhardt (Davos, Graubünden, Switzerland, 1925 - 2003)

Date1981

Object NameFolding Card

Mediumink, card

ClassificationsPrints

DimensionsPaper Size (Folded): 5 x 7.1cm

AcquisitionPresented in 2010 by Joyce Laing OBE.

LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub

Object numberABDAG017635

About MeFolding card designed by Lucius Burckhardt and Ian Hamilton Finlay and printed on cream card by Wild Hawthorn Press. The front has a illustration, which is described inside the card:

CAPITAL, n. A republican crown.

Seen in this way, the lost CAPITAL is
an envoy: a parody of the now solely
burlesque treatment of history in this
post-modernism and, as a consequence,
a double negation as well, yet without
the desirable positive change in values,
at least from the perspective of making
use of history.

Gerd Neumann, Callimachus 1981

This card is part of an archive that belonged to Joyce Laing, OBE. The artist, Ian Hamilton Finlay, was a personal friend.