Saint-Just Vigilantes - Secret
- Artist:
- Type: Print
- Medium: Lithograph
- Production Date: 1983
- Description: The art of Ian Hamilton Finlay is unusual for encompassing a variety of different media and discourses: poetry, philosophy, history, gardening and landscape design are among the genres of expression through which his work moves, and common to all of Finlay's diverse production is the inscription of language. In 1961 he founded the Wild Hawthorn Press with Jessie McGuffie. The output of this press included prints, magazines, booklets, folders and cards on almost all of which Ian Hamilton Finlay collaborated with other artists - painters, typographers, calligraphers and others. The University Art Collection holds several works by Ian Hamilton Finlay.
"Highlights of what became known as the "War of Little Sparta" included, in 1983, the attempted seizure by the sheriff officer of works from the Garden Temple (a barn which had been converted) in lieu of rates. The region refused to accept that the building was eligible for rates relief as a place of worship or even to discuss its description as such. A group of Hamilton Finlay's supporters, calling themselves the Saint-Just Vigilantes, barred the entrance to Little Sparta. "We had constructed a panzer tank and were letting off explosions and so on," Hamilton Finlay later explained. "It was a thoroughly satisfactory day."" (Obit., Telegraph, 2006-03-28). - Dimensions: Unframed: 22.2cm H x 20cm W
- Digital Copy:A digital copy exists.
- Location: Store (Plan Chest)
- Related Material: AC/AF/F/5
- Accession Number: 2008.12
- Contact: University of Stirling Art Collection
