(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"