Screenprint on paper
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/ian-hamilton-finlay-1093" aria-label="More by Ian Hamilton Finlay" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Ian Hamilton Finlay</a>
Homage to Agam
Purchased 1982
Agam, sculpture
dedication
emotions, concepts and ideas
fine art and design, named works
inscriptions
objects
pun
ship, warship, ‘HMS Indefatigable’
ship, warship, ‘HMS Inflexible’
ship, warship, ‘HMS Invincible’
society
symbols and personifications
title of work
transport: water
universal concepts
paper print screenprint
Homage to Agam
image: 380 × 264 mm
Purchased 1982
<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-homage-to-agam-p07647" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07647</span></a> (i) and (ii) <b>Homage to Agam</b> 1978
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<br/>Two-sheet screenprint 15 × 10 3/8 (380 × 264), printed at Girdwood and published by the Wild Hawthorn Press in an edition of 150
<br/>Inscribed ‘Ian Hamilton Finlay’ and ‘66’ on flyleaf of cover
<br/>Purchased from the artist (Grant-in-Aid) 1982
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<br/>This work, made in collaboration with David Button, consists of a sheet of cream <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/paper" title="Glossary definition for 'Paper'"><span>paper</span></a> printed with line <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawings</span></a> of three World War I warships and their names: ‘INVINCIBLE. INFLEXIBLE. INDEFATIGABLE’ with a tracing paper overlay sheet which adds red diagonal strokes - the poles which held the ships’ torpedo nets - along each hull. The words ‘TRANSFORMABLE LINE SEGMENTS’ are placed above the names and ‘HOMAGE TO AGAM’ below. The work is a visual pun on certain works by the Israeli artist Agam. It is enclosed in a grey cover.
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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>-<span>P07647</span>] 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
Agam, sculpture dedication emotions, concepts and ideas fine art and design, named works inscriptions objects pun ship, warship, ‘HMS Indefatigable’ ship, warship, ‘HMS Inflexible’ ship, warship, ‘HMS Invincible’ society symbols and personifications title of work transport: water universal concepts