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Ian Hamilton Finlay : a visual primer / by Yves Abrioux ; with introductory notes and commentaries by Stephen Bann.

By: Publication details: London : Reaktion, 1992.Edition: 2nd edDescription: 318 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cmISBN:
  • 0948462353
  • 094846240X
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Contents:
Biographical Information -- Part I. Stonypath: The Garden and the Temple / introduced by Stephen Bann. The Garden; The Temple. 2. Literacy Traditional and Modern / introduced by Stephen Bann. Short stories and rhyming poems; Metaphors and Metamorphoses, Tugs and Barges, Found Poems, One-Word Poems, An Inland Garden, Elegy. 3. Neoclassical / introduced to Stephen Bann. Heroic Emblems, Deliberate Forms, Landscape Improvements, The Third Reich Revisited / introduced by Ian Hamilton Finlay, Idylls / introduced by Stephen Bann -- Part II. 1. What's in a name? 2. Near and Far. 3. The Word. 4. Metaphor, Rhyme, Citation. 5. Civilizing Dada. 6. he Destructive Element. 7. Hieroglyph, Allegory, Portrait. 8. Neopresocratic. 9. Sundials. 10. Et in Arcadia Ego. 11. Sublimity, Terror, Awe. 12. The Objects of Allegory. 13. Translating the Classics.
Summary: Describing and illustrating the career of the diversely-talented visual artist Ian Hamilton Finlay, this book includes poems, short stories and photographs of non-printed materials, and analyzes a range of issues raised by Finlay's work.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 312-317) and index.

Biographical Information -- Part I. Stonypath: The Garden and the Temple / introduced by Stephen Bann. The Garden; The Temple. 2. Literacy Traditional and Modern / introduced by Stephen Bann. Short stories and rhyming poems; Metaphors and Metamorphoses, Tugs and Barges, Found Poems, One-Word Poems, An Inland Garden, Elegy. 3. Neoclassical / introduced to Stephen Bann. Heroic Emblems, Deliberate Forms, Landscape Improvements, The Third Reich Revisited / introduced by Ian Hamilton Finlay, Idylls / introduced by Stephen Bann -- Part II. 1. What's in a name? 2. Near and Far. 3. The Word. 4. Metaphor, Rhyme, Citation. 5. Civilizing Dada. 6. he Destructive Element. 7. Hieroglyph, Allegory, Portrait. 8. Neopresocratic. 9. Sundials. 10. Et in Arcadia Ego. 11. Sublimity, Terror, Awe. 12. The Objects of Allegory. 13. Translating the Classics.

Describing and illustrating the career of the diversely-talented visual artist Ian Hamilton Finlay, this book includes poems, short stories and photographs of non-printed materials, and analyzes a range of issues raised by Finlay's work.