Ian Hamilton Finlay is featured in the UCL exhibition Witnessing Terror: French Revolutionary Prints

The exhibition (14 January–12 June 2020) showcases UCL Art Museum’s unique holdings of prints related to the French Revolution and draws out the contemporary relevance of revolutionary iconography in work by Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925−2006) that engages with the long-term legacy of the Terror.

 

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Image: Ian Hamilton Finlay

Translation of a Line from Chenier: A Line of Thin Pale Red, 1989, with Julie Farthing,
Neon
15 x 140 x 8 cm
5 7/8 x 55 1/8 x 3 1/8 in
© The Estate of Ian Hamilton Finlay
Courtesy the artist's estate and Victoria Miro, London/Venice
January 6 2020