Description: Hamilton Finlay: A Visual Primer. Yves Abrioux. Stephen Bann. Hardcover with dust jacket. MIT Press. First edition 1992. 328 pages. 11.5" x 8.5". ISBN 0262011298.Excellent condition. The binding is square and tight. The pages are clean, no markings, no creasing or tears. The boards are clean, no wear. The dust jacket is clean with minimal wear. Free domestic shipping USPS Media Mail. Poet, gardener, and moralist, Ian Hamilton Finlay is also an artist of international stature whose remarkable originality blurs the traditional genre distinctions between painting, sculpture, and architecture. Ian Hamilton Finlay: A Visual Primer will be an indispensable source for readers interested in any aspect of his work. Representing Finlay as both a visual artist and a poet, it brings together the widest range of printed texts, photographs, and environmental work yet assembled to provide a comprehensive overview of his achievements.Finlay became known in the 1960s as Britain's foremost concrete poet and promoted this movement through his Wild Hawthorn Press, which he continues to operate. Yet he is best known for his garden at Stonypath in Lanarkshire, Scotland, one of the most celebrated of modern gardens. "Little Sparta," as the garden is now called, is an inland island constantly transformed with Neoclassical specimens relating Finlay's poem structures to a variety of landscape expressions. It uses the simple elements of plants, water, and land forms in which poem structures and emblems are points of focus to provide a visual and aesthetic education for the visitor.In this garden laboratory, Finlay has transformed the poem from something on a printed page to something akin to a work of architecture. The majority of his work (which extends to many media including cards, posters, pamphlets, portfolios, books, and photographs) is carried out in collaboration with craftspeople, artists, photographers, and architects. Like his garden, his works often imply a sharp, uncompromising critique of the contemporary cultural scene.The French critic Yves Abrioux is a member of the editorial board of the magazine Digraphs and has published numerous articles and exhibition catalogs on Ian Hamilton Finlay's work, as well as on contemporary American fiction and literary theory. Stephen Bann is Professor of Modern Cultural Studies at the University of Kent.
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Book Title: Hamilton Finlay: A Visual Primer
Original Language: English
Item Length: 8.5 in
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Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Item Height: 11.5 in
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Features: Dust Jacket, Illustrated
Topic: Architecture, Art History, Art Instruction, Artists, Classicism, Contemporary Art, Crafts, Cultural History, Environmental Issues, Gardening, Gardens, Landscaping, Poetry
Item Width: 1 in
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Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: The MIT Press
Intended Audience: Adults
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Edition: First Edition
Publication Year: 1992
Type: Picture Book
Author: Yves Abrioux, Stephen Bann
Genre: Art & Culture, Ecology, Environment, Nature & Earth, Fantasy, Imagery, Philosophy
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Item Weight: 64 oz
Number of Pages: 328
