Photograph, black and white, on paper
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Propaganda Wood Elves collaboration with Harvey Dwight
Purchased 1983
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paper print photograph black white
Propaganda for the Wood Elves [collaboration with Harvey Dwight]
image: 210 × 148 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-propaganda-for-the-wood-elves-collaboration-with-harvey-dwight-p07926" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07926</span></a> <b>Propaganda for the Wood Elves</b> 1981
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<br/>Photograph 8 1/4 × 5 13/16 (210 × 148)
<br/>Not inscribed
<br/>Purchased from the artist (Grant-in-Aid) 1983
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<br/>Made in collaboration with Harvey Dwight from a <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/photograph" title="Glossary definition for 'Photograph'"><span>photograph</span></a> set up and taken in Finlay's garden at Little Sparta. In conversation with the compiler the artist described the image as ‘an enigmatic emblem. Visual paradox is one mode of an emblem’, adding that it referred to traditional German tree-worship and the violence of nature.
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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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2004-10-13T00:00:00
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architecture axe emotions, concepts and ideas fascism formal qualities garden garden structures government and politics inscriptions objects photographic society swastika symbols and personifications tools and machinery universal concepts violence