Nature over again : the garden art of Ian Hamilton Finlay / John Dixon Hunt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hunt, John Dixon.

Contributor:

Costley, Ron, designer.

Cooperman, Emily T., photographer.

Graeme Moore Collection of Ian Hamilton Finlay (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Finlay, Ian Hamilton.

Gardens.

Gardens--Design.

Penn Provenance:

Moore, Graeme (former owner) (Moore Finlay Collection copy)

Physical Description:

197 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

[London] : Reaktion Books, [2008].

Contents:

Words of a dead poet ...

Garden matters: 'a tangible image ...'

From page to garden

Detached sentences

Fragments, excerpts & incompletions

Inscriptions

'Spaces full of doubt'

' ... the hideous process of secularization'

Mare nostrum

Et in Arcadia Ego

[Neo-]classical landscapes

Revolutions

Errata, or recovered in translation

'Mower is Less'

A solid place

Gardens matter.

Notes:

"First published 2008."

"Designed by Ron Costley."

"'Nature Over Again' reveals the story behind Finlay's renowned garden art, and is the first significant study to examine all his gaden designs and 'interventions'."--Dustjacket.

"The majority of the garden photographs were specially taken by Emily T. Cooperman for this publication."--Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-194).

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Moore Finlay Collection copy purchased by the Penn Libraries in 2012 from Graeme Moore.

Moore Finlay Collection copy has dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

9781861893932

1861893930

OCLC:

225875918