Screenprint on paper
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Apollo and Daphne after Bernini
Purchased 1983
actions: postures and motions
adults
Apollo
Bernini, Gianlorenzo, sculpture, ‘Apollo and Daphne’
caption
classical
classical myths: gods and heroes
clothing and personal items
colour
Daphne
desire
drapery
emotions and human qualities
emotions, concepts and ideas
fear
female
fine art and design, named works
formal qualities
history
inscriptions
literature and fiction
male
man
nudes
objects
Ovid, ‘Metamorphoses’
people
politics and society
politics: Nazi Germany, 1933-45
religion and belief
running
symbols and personifications
transformation
uniform / kit
universal concepts
woman
paper print screenprint
Apollo and Daphne, after Bernini
image: 497 × 360 mm
Purchased 1983
<p><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/finlay-apollo-and-daphne-after-bernini-p07931" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07931</span></a> <b>Apollo and Daphne</b> 1975
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<br/>Screenprint 19 1/2×14 1/8 (497 × 360), printed at Girdwood, published by the Wild Hawthorn Press in an edition of about 300
<br/>Not inscribed
<br/>Purchased from the artist (Grant-in-Aid) 1983
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<br/>Text beneath the image indicates Finlay's idea of Apollo with Daphne being engulfed by a green camouflage smock: ‘APOLLO AND DAPHNE/ after Bernini/BIBLIOGRAPHY - Ovid, “Metamorphoses”; Rudolf Wittkower, “The <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/sculpture" title="Glossary definition for 'Sculpture'"><span>Sculptures</span></a> of Gian Lorenzo Bernini”; Historical Research Unit, Vol. 6, “Uniforms of the SS”’. In conversation with the compiler the artist mentioned that in the story of Apollo and Daphne the gods and nature ‘were behaving not unlike the Waffen SS’ (who were the first to use a smock with a leaf camouflage pattern, hence its identification with them). This image, in which Daphne is wearing a camouflage smock which replaces ‘nature’, was used as the poster for the exhibition ‘Ian Hamilton Finlay: Collaborations’ at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, 1977.
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<br/>This and the following entries [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/phillips-canto-ii-no-title-p07625" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07625</span></a>-<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/chia-about-the-unseizable-p07634" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07634</span></a> and <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/finlay-sailing-barge-redwing-p07645" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07645</span></a>-<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/finlay-homage-to-agam-p07647" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07647</span></a>] have all been approved by the artist.
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<br/><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><i>The Tate Gallery 1982-84: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions</i>, London 1986
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Catalogue entry
2004-10-13T00:00:00
catalogue-entry
CATALOGUE_ENTRY
actions: postures and motions adults Apollo Bernini, Gianlorenzo, sculpture, ‘Apollo and Daphne’ caption classical classical myths: gods and heroes clothing and personal items colour Daphne desire drapery emotions and human qualities emotions, concepts and ideas fear female fine art and design, named works formal qualities history inscriptions literature and fiction male man nudes objects Ovid, ‘Metamorphoses’ people politics and society politics: Nazi Germany, 1933-45 religion and belief running symbols and personifications transformation uniform / kit universal concepts woman