Ian Hamilton Finlay
1792 Mountain Plain Ravine, with Annet Stirling, 1994
Purbeck Portland stone
30 x 43 1/4 x 2 in (76.2 x 109.9 x 5.1 cm)
IF0502
Ex:Streiflichter: Fragments Of the French Revolution (May 94)In a revolution, where every faction saw itself as the Nation, by 1992 Death began to haunt the Assembly. the Mountain was the...
Ex:Streiflichter: Fragments Of the French Revolution (May 94)In a revolution, where every faction saw itself as the Nation, by 1992 Death began to haunt the Assembly. the Mountain was the name given to the "left" faction, the Plain was the Moderates. The Ravine then becomes the treacherous divide between the two powers.
"When we go on being righteous, we perish. -- Let us save France today! Tomorrow we shall become righteous." - Michelet
The heroic colors of the Revolution changed to a bloody red. The philosophical pathos of universal freedom can see the existing and the self-created world only as a barrier still to be overcome. So the Revolution has no end. External enemies exist, the Revolution produces internal enemies, With both it fulfills the necessity of its course.
"When we go on being righteous, we perish. -- Let us save France today! Tomorrow we shall become righteous." - Michelet
The heroic colors of the Revolution changed to a bloody red. The philosophical pathos of universal freedom can see the existing and the self-created world only as a barrier still to be overcome. So the Revolution has no end. External enemies exist, the Revolution produces internal enemies, With both it fulfills the necessity of its course.