Scope and Contents

The works of Ian Hamilton Finlay are featured in this book especially in the chapter entitled, "Word and Image in the Garden." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents In this book, with many beautiful pictures of Finlay's international gardens and picture and concrete poetic works, Professor Hunt "isolates Finlay's garden art, in all of its different manifestations, and bring to it my own longstanding concerns with the history and theory of garden-making or landscape architecture. This meant, certainly, tracking the garden imagination and inventions back to some of Finlay's early non-garden art, but it also required that the essay begin with the gardens and landscapes themselves , n their own right, and only then invoke Finlay's rich and prolific writing and book production as aids to understanding hos he envisaged the making of gardens in the contemporary world." Dr. Hunt visited the Sackner Archive for parts of his research and acknowledged that "this book could not have been published without recourse to the superb Finlay collections of Marvin and Ruth Sackner, and I thank them for their kind agreement to let me reproduce materials [12...

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This publication which was edited by Zdenek Felix and Pia Simig was published on the occasion of Finlay's exhibition entitled Works - Pure and Political at Diechtorhallen, Hamburg Germany in 1995. Includes photographs b&w of Finlay's sculptural works, documentation on their significance, and a listing of his collaborators. Archival material forming the basis for several of these works is held by the Sackner Archive, e.g., Max Plank Institute, Stuttgart (1972). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.