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NATURE OVER AGAIN John Dixon Hunt nature over again NATURE OVER AGAIN The garden art of Ian Hamilton Finlay john dixon hunt reaktion books Published by Reaktion Books Ltd 33Great Sutton Street London ec1v 0dx, uk www.reaktionbooks.co.uk First published 2008 Copyright © John Dixon Hunt 2008 Reproduction of Ian Hamilton Finlay artworks by courtesy of the Artist’s Estate. All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publishers. Designed by Ron Costley Printed and bound in Singapore by Craft Print International Ltd British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Hunt, John Dixon Nature over again : the garden art of Ian Hamilton Finlay 1. Finlay, Ian Hamilton 2. Gardens 3. Gardens - Design I. Title 712.6'092 isbn:978 1 86189 393 2 For Emily Friendship is inclination, acquaintance is geography ian hamilton finlay, ‘Detached Sentences on Friendship’, 1991 Contents Preamble 11 1 Words of a dead poet . . . 15 2 Garden matters: ‘a tangible image . . . ’ 18 3 From page to garden 23 4 Detached sentences 38 5 Fragments, excerpts & incompletions 43 6 Inscriptions 59 7 ‘Spaces full of doubt’ 75 8 ‘ . . . the hideous process of secularization’ 82 9 Mare nostrum 88 10 Et in Arcadia Ego 94 11 [Neo-]classical landscapes 100 12 Revolutions 109 13 Errata, or recovered in translation 120 14 ‘Mower is Less’ 137 15 A solid place 142 16 Gardens matter 148 Appendix 177 References 183 Acknowledgements 195 Photo Acknowledgements 197 1 ‘Nuclear Sail’ seen across the Lochan, Little Sparta. 2 The obelisk dedicated to Claude Lorrain at the Upper Pool, Little Sparta.
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