Ian Hamilton Finlay
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Ian Hamilton Finlay was a Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener.
Finlay at Little Sparta, 1994
The grave of Ian Hamilton Finlay, Abercorn churchyard
Hamilton Finlay and George Oliver's 1973 Arcadia screenprint uses camouflage in modern art to contrast leafy peace and military hardware. He continually revisited war themes and the concept of the Utopian Arcadia in his work.
Five Columns by Finlay in the Kröller-Müller Museum
Concrete poetry
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Concrete poetry is an arrangement of linguistic elements in which the typographical effect is more important in conveying meaning than verbal significance. It is sometimes referred to as visual poetry
Ian Hamilton Finlay
…dispute. Dancers was included in its entirety in a New Directions annual a few years later. In 1963, Finlay published Rapel, his first collection of concrete poetry (poetry in which the layout and typography of the words contributes to its overall effect), and it was as a concrete poet that he first gained wide…
"Constantinople", a 'ferro-concrete poem' from Tango with Cows by the Russian Futurist Vasily Kamensky, 1914
George Herbert's "Easter Wings" (1633), printed sideways on facing pages so that the lines would call to mind angels flying with outstretched wings
Ian Hamilton Finlay sculpture in Stuttgart, 1975; the word schiff (ship) is carved in reverse and can only be decoded when reflected on water