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IAN HAMILTON FINLAY: A VISUAL PRIMER

by Yves Abrioux; Stephen Bann

Illustrated by Ian Hamilton Finlay

Published by Reaktion Books. 2nd. 1992

Slightly better than very good condition. Second Edition. Includes biographical notes. This book describes and illustrated Ian Hamilton Finlay's whole artistic career. Large format. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour & b/w photos. 318 pages including index.

Light rubbing to cover edges. Vertical reading crease to spine. Couple of minor marks to lower edge of text block. Contents clean.

ISBN: 0948462353
Stock no. 1830863

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Contents

  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface to Second Edition
  • Preface to First Edition
  • Biographical notes
  • Artists books, Collaborations, Poem Cards, Little Spartan War, Blades, Homages, Friendship
  • PART I
  • 1 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 by 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? Juan Gris
  • 2 Near and Far
  • The Pastorals of Mars - Firtrees and Pines
  • First Suprematist Standing Poem
  • The Immeasurable, Nature Over Again After Poussin
  • 3 The Word
  • 4 Metaphor, Rhyme, Citation
  • Rhymes for Lemons
  • 5 Civilizing Dada
  • Letters and Numbers
  • 6 The Destructive Element
  • Military Honours
  • 7 Hieroglyph, Allegory, Portrait
  • Portraits
  • 8 Neopresocratic
  • Lyres, Tags, Chant for a Regional Occasion, Definitions and Translations, Signs/Axioms, Fragments, Sea Poppy II
  • 9 Sundials
  • 10 Et in Arcadia Ego
  • Arcady, Watteau
  • 11 Sublimity, Terror, Awe
  • Saint-Just, Revolution, Pastoral, Third Reich, Arrosoir, Adornos' Hut
  • 12 The Objects of Allegory
  • 13 Translating the Classics
  • Translations, Revolutionary Heads, Grove
  • Notes and References
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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