Atlantic flowers the Naval Memorials of Little Sparta
The upland garden of Little Sparta is evocative of distant seas. Atlantic Flowers offers fresh insights into the poetic gardening of Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006) by acknowledging that the warship sculptures are simultaneously naval memorials. These comprise about a tenth of the garden’s 280 artwo...
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| Sprache: | English |
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New Arcadian press
2022
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| Schriftenreihe: | New Arcadian journal
no. 77/78 (2022) |
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| Zusammenfassung: | The upland garden of Little Sparta is evocative of distant seas. Atlantic Flowers offers fresh insights into the poetic gardening of Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006) by acknowledging that the warship sculptures are simultaneously naval memorials. These comprise about a tenth of the garden’s 280 artworks, which elaborate the poet’s rich treasury of ideas. Dr Patrick Eyres explores the consistency of this little known, understated and almost private, elegiac theme from the initial memorial to HMS Illustrious (1972), to the cluster of artworks (1999-2001) that culminate in the monumental Camouflaged Flowers. This epic composition of garden and landscape, planting and sculpture, weather and seasons, commemorates the Flower Class corvettes of the Battle of the Atlantic (1939-1945). |
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| Beschreibung: | 226 Seiten Illustrationen |