Ian Hamilton Finlay. Art Press, Paris. Wild Hawthorn Press, 1987.
Title: Art Press, Paris.
Artist/Author: Ian Hamilton Finlay
Publisher: Wild Hawthorn Press
Publication date: 1987
Design: Ian Hamilton Finlay
Format: single-sided card, 3.8 × 9.2 cm (comp.) 16.7 × 13.1 cm (sheet)
Condition: Fine
Stock Number: RB04492 79
Collections: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne ; Princeton University Library
Literature: Murray, Mooney & Finlay 4.245
ART PRESS, PARIS / ANNOUNCES / WE'RE GONNA HANG OUT THE WASHING ON THE SIEGFRIED LINE / RUN, RABBIT, RUN! / DER FUERHER'S FACE / THE WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER / AND OTHER / WORLD WAR II NAZI MARCHING SONGS! / WRITE TO CATHERINE MILLET, EDITOR, ART PRESS / 2 RUE SAINT SIMON, 75007 PARIS / Committe of Public Safety, Little Sparta.
On the 15th of June 1989 The Herald and Times reported: “In 1986 the French Government commissioned Finlay to design a landscaped garden at Versailles to commemorate the bicentennial of the Declaration of the Rights of Man. The €500,000 work was to have been one of only two permanent monuments to emerge from this year's celebration of the French Revolution.”
“The awarding of such an honour kindled chauvinist fires of resentment, which burst into view in 1987 when the French magazine Art Press accused Finlay of being a fascist. Doubts about Finlay's ideological sympathies began making the rounds of the Paris art scene. In March, 1988, the editor of Art Press, Catherine Millet, and a member of the Ligue de Droits de L'Homme, Michel Blum, took the accusations further during a programme about Finlay's work on French radio station Europe 1. The two attacked Ministry of Culture spokeswoman Catherine Duhamel, ostensibly there to defend Finlay, for sullying the ideals of the Declaration of the Rights of Man by granting the commission to an apologist of the Third Reich.”
“Ms Duhamel did not know enough about Finlay to fend off the attack. In an act of moral cowardice, the Ministry promptly gave in and cancelled the commission, without affording Finlay the chance to explain himself. Finlay responded by suing for defamation both Europe 1 and Art Press.” – 15th June 1989 Herald and Times archive
Title: Art Press, Paris.
Artist/Author: Ian Hamilton Finlay
Publisher: Wild Hawthorn Press
Publication date: 1987
Design: Ian Hamilton Finlay
Format: single-sided card, 3.8 × 9.2 cm (comp.) 16.7 × 13.1 cm (sheet)
Condition: Fine
Stock Number: RB04492 79
Collections: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne ; Princeton University Library
Literature: Murray, Mooney & Finlay 4.245
ART PRESS, PARIS / ANNOUNCES / WE'RE GONNA HANG OUT THE WASHING ON THE SIEGFRIED LINE / RUN, RABBIT, RUN! / DER FUERHER'S FACE / THE WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER / AND OTHER / WORLD WAR II NAZI MARCHING SONGS! / WRITE TO CATHERINE MILLET, EDITOR, ART PRESS / 2 RUE SAINT SIMON, 75007 PARIS / Committe of Public Safety, Little Sparta.
On the 15th of June 1989 The Herald and Times reported: “In 1986 the French Government commissioned Finlay to design a landscaped garden at Versailles to commemorate the bicentennial of the Declaration of the Rights of Man. The €500,000 work was to have been one of only two permanent monuments to emerge from this year's celebration of the French Revolution.”
“The awarding of such an honour kindled chauvinist fires of resentment, which burst into view in 1987 when the French magazine Art Press accused Finlay of being a fascist. Doubts about Finlay's ideological sympathies began making the rounds of the Paris art scene. In March, 1988, the editor of Art Press, Catherine Millet, and a member of the Ligue de Droits de L'Homme, Michel Blum, took the accusations further during a programme about Finlay's work on French radio station Europe 1. The two attacked Ministry of Culture spokeswoman Catherine Duhamel, ostensibly there to defend Finlay, for sullying the ideals of the Declaration of the Rights of Man by granting the commission to an apologist of the Third Reich.”
“Ms Duhamel did not know enough about Finlay to fend off the attack. In an act of moral cowardice, the Ministry promptly gave in and cancelled the commission, without affording Finlay the chance to explain himself. Finlay responded by suing for defamation both Europe 1 and Art Press.” – 15th June 1989 Herald and Times archive
Title: Art Press, Paris.
Artist/Author: Ian Hamilton Finlay
Publisher: Wild Hawthorn Press
Publication date: 1987
Design: Ian Hamilton Finlay
Format: single-sided card, 3.8 × 9.2 cm (comp.) 16.7 × 13.1 cm (sheet)
Condition: Fine
Stock Number: RB04492 79
Collections: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne ; Princeton University Library
Literature: Murray, Mooney & Finlay 4.245
ART PRESS, PARIS / ANNOUNCES / WE'RE GONNA HANG OUT THE WASHING ON THE SIEGFRIED LINE / RUN, RABBIT, RUN! / DER FUERHER'S FACE / THE WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER / AND OTHER / WORLD WAR II NAZI MARCHING SONGS! / WRITE TO CATHERINE MILLET, EDITOR, ART PRESS / 2 RUE SAINT SIMON, 75007 PARIS / Committe of Public Safety, Little Sparta.
On the 15th of June 1989 The Herald and Times reported: “In 1986 the French Government commissioned Finlay to design a landscaped garden at Versailles to commemorate the bicentennial of the Declaration of the Rights of Man. The €500,000 work was to have been one of only two permanent monuments to emerge from this year's celebration of the French Revolution.”
“The awarding of such an honour kindled chauvinist fires of resentment, which burst into view in 1987 when the French magazine Art Press accused Finlay of being a fascist. Doubts about Finlay's ideological sympathies began making the rounds of the Paris art scene. In March, 1988, the editor of Art Press, Catherine Millet, and a member of the Ligue de Droits de L'Homme, Michel Blum, took the accusations further during a programme about Finlay's work on French radio station Europe 1. The two attacked Ministry of Culture spokeswoman Catherine Duhamel, ostensibly there to defend Finlay, for sullying the ideals of the Declaration of the Rights of Man by granting the commission to an apologist of the Third Reich.”
“Ms Duhamel did not know enough about Finlay to fend off the attack. In an act of moral cowardice, the Ministry promptly gave in and cancelled the commission, without affording Finlay the chance to explain himself. Finlay responded by suing for defamation both Europe 1 and Art Press.” – 15th June 1989 Herald and Times archive
