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Revolutionary pursuits
1987

Medium
lithographs
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Grazia Gunn through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program, 2010
Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Medium
lithographs
Measurements
(1-7) 11.0 × 13.5 cm (comp.) 16.0 × 18.5 cm (sheet) (each)
Printing/Publishing
published by Fondation Cartier
Inscription
(1) printed: For the best of the Jacobins / the Revolution was intended / as a pastoral whose / Virgil was Rousseau. / Ian Hamilton Finlay "Revolutionary Pursuits"
(2) printed: You cannot step / into the same Revolution / twice. / Ian Hamilton Finlay Fondation Cartier 1987
(3) printed: Revolutions conceived in the fields / are very different from / Revolution conceived in the cellar. / Ian Hamilton Finlay "Revolutionary Pursuits" Fondation Cartier 1987
(4) printed: Three Parties / in The Convention: / The Mountain, The Plain, / The Ravine. / Ian Hamilton Finlay "Revolutionary Pursuits" Fondation Cartier 1987
(5) printed: "Who are these men / who have no streets / named after them?" / - French person of 1987, on / The Committe of Public Safety, 1974. / Ian Hamilton Finlay "Revolutionary Pursuits" Fondation Cartier 1987
(6) printed: The French Revolution / was something other than the French nation / on the psychoanalyst's couch. / Ian Hamilton Finlay "Revolutionary Pursuits" Fondation Cartier 1987
(7) printed: It is not true / that the blade was terrible / it was Terrible. / Ian Hamilton Finlay "Revolutionary Pursuits" Fondation Cartier 1987
(8) printed: In the first chapters / of the Revolution / when the ribbons / were still on the haycocks... / Ian Hamilton Finlay "Revolutionary Pursuits" Fondation Cartier 1987
(9) printed: In the Picturesque landscape / of the Revolution / the wildest of the banditti / were all ex-laywers. / Ian Hamilton Finlay "Revolutionary Pursuits"
Accession Number
2010.177.1-9
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Grazia Gunn through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program, 2010
Gallery location
Not on display