Ian Hamilton Finlay Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)
Ian Hamilton Finlay was een Schotse kunstenaar die bekend werd om zijn innovatieve werk met concrete poëzie, waarbij de lay-out en typografie van woorden bijdragen aan het algehele effect. Zijn artistieke praktijk evolueerde van het schrijven van verhalen en gedichten naar het creëren van 'gedicht-objecten' gegraveerd in steen. Hij integreerde deze werken vaak in natuurlijke omgevingen, zoals blijkt uit zijn gevierde tuin, Little Sparta. Finlay's oeuvre verkent de relatie tussen taal, kunst en natuur door middel van visuele en tekstuele elementen.
Selections
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This volume surveys the life and work of the Scottish poet Ian Hamilton Finlay, who is best known for his extraordinary garden, Little Sparta, a unique "poem of place" in which poetry, sculpture, and horticulture intersect. This book directs sustained attention to Finlay the verbal artist, revealing the full breadth and richness of his poetics. It illuminates the evolution from his early years of composing plays, stories, and lyrical poems to his discovery of Concrete poetry and his emergence as a key figure in the international avant-garde of the 1960s.
Land & Environmental Art
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The traditional landscape genre was radically transformed in the 1960s when many artists stopped merely representing the land and made their mark directly in the environment. Drawn by the vast uncultivated spaces of the desert and mountain as well as post-industrial wastelands, artists such as Michael Heizer, Nancy Holt or Robert Smithson moved earth to create colossal primal symbols. Others punctuated the horizon with man-made signposts, such as Christo's Running Fence or Walter de Maria's Lightning Field. Journeys became works of art for Richard Long whilst Dennis Oppenheim and Ana Mendieta immersed their bodies in the contours of the land.