{"title":"On Ian Hamilton Finlay’s tree-column bases in sacred groves","authors":"Jakub Guziur","doi":"10.1080/14601176.2021.2014158","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Scottish poet and artist Ian Hamilton Finlay is best-known for his concrete poetry of the 1960s and his later work which presents a unique combination of poetry, sculpture and gardening. Finlay approached gardens as ‘a text’. This essay offers ‘a reading’ of his stone column bases, i.e. bases of classical columns installed in front of real, growing trees. To clarify the symbolic role of the column, attention is drawn to the art of the Archaic period of the Greek culture. Finlay’s artistic concept is seen as representing kosmopoeisis, a process of transforming chaos into the cosmos, which is, by its nature, of an artistic character. The artwork as a complex artistic statement touches upon a number of crucial topics (such as nature, cultivation, order, beauty, piety, or violence); this essay tries to elucidate their interrelationship.","PeriodicalId":53992,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF GARDENS & DESIGNED LANDSCAPES","volume":"41 1","pages":"261 - 267"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF GARDENS & DESIGNED LANDSCAPES","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14601176.2021.2014158","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"ARCHITECTURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Scottish poet and artist Ian Hamilton Finlay is best-known for his concrete poetry of the 1960s and his later work which presents a unique combination of poetry, sculpture and gardening. Finlay approached gardens as ‘a text’. This essay offers ‘a reading’ of his stone column bases, i.e. bases of classical columns installed in front of real, growing trees. To clarify the symbolic role of the column, attention is drawn to the art of the Archaic period of the Greek culture. Finlay’s artistic concept is seen as representing kosmopoeisis, a process of transforming chaos into the cosmos, which is, by its nature, of an artistic character. The artwork as a complex artistic statement touches upon a number of crucial topics (such as nature, cultivation, order, beauty, piety, or violence); this essay tries to elucidate their interrelationship.
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Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes addresses itself to readers with a serious interest in the subject, and is now established as the main place in which to publish scholarly work on all aspects of garden history. The journal"s main emphasis is on detailed and documentary analysis of specific sites in all parts of the world, with focus on both design and reception. The journal is also specifically interested in garden and landscape history as part of wider contexts such as social and cultural history and geography, aesthetics, technology, (most obviously horticulture), presentation and conservation.
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