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Et in Arcadia ego : after Nicolas Poussin
- Artist/Creator
- Ian Hamilton Finlay (Creator)
- Date
- 1981
- ID #
- 3.1.0.0072
- Level of Description
- Item
Object Description
Item is a photograph of an inscribed stone tablet, carved with a tank in a forest. Title is taken from a Poussin painting, and it means "Even in Arcady, I, death, hold sway." The machine gun is a visual pun on Virgil's flute, with vents in the barrels for fingers.
Physical Description
- Physical Extent
- 1 postcard : ill. ; 14.7 x 10.5 cm
- Material Type
- Graphic material
History
- Collection
- Concrete Poetry series
- Credit Line
- –
- Related Exhibitions
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