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Little Sparta / Robin Gillanders ; detached sentences, Ian Hamilton Finlay ; afterword, Alec Finlay.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Gillanders, Robin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Finlay, Ian Hamilton.
- Gillanders, Robin.
- Photography of gardens--Exhibitions.
- Photography of gardens.
- Little Sparta (Dunsyre, Scotland)--Exhibitions.
- Little Sparta (Dunsyre, Scotland).
- Gillanders, Robin--Exhibitions.
- Finlay, Ian Hamilton--Exhibitions.
- Finlay, Ian Hamilton--Homes and haunts--Exhibitions.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 62 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations ; 26 cm
- Other Title:
- Robin Gillanders, little Sparta
- Half title : Little Sparta, a portrait of a garden.
- Place of Publication:
- [Edinburgh] : Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 1998.
- Summary:
- Since September 1993, Robin Gillanders has been photographing the neo-classical garden of internationally renowned artist, Ian Hamilton Finlay. The Garden, Little Sparta, at Dunsyre in the Pentland Hills, is a modern conception of a classical garden with sculptures, stone inscriptions and other artifacts placed within the landscape. Robin Gillanders' beautiful photographs are a personal response to this remarkable environment, composed over a number of years and through different seasons, during which he familiarized himself with the garden's topography and Finlay's poetry and thought. As he came to know the place, there is a growing spiritual and imaginative response and, with this, a sense of permission to explore the landscape on his own terms. This sense of possibilities opening before him echoes Finlay's observation: A garden is not an object but a process. In celebration of this composition, the National Galleries of Scotland are publishing a limited hardcover edition of Robin Gillanders' photographs accompanied by Ian Hamilton Finlay's thoughts on gardening and a unique conversation with him about the creation of Little Sparta.
- Notes:
- "Published by the Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland for the exhibition held at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery 17 July - 29 November 1998"--Colophon.
- ISBN:
- 090359885X
- OCLC:
- 40105655
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