Critic, poet and artist Greg Thomas and publisher Lund Humphries are crowdfunding for a new book on Ian Hamilton Finlay's creative collaborations.
Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006) is considered amongst the most important Scottish artists and poets of the twentieth century. As a pioneer of concrete poetry, Finlay required craftsmen and fabricators of many kinds to realise language-forms across graphic and three-dimensional settings. His creative acquaintances included typographers, photographers, publishers, poets, visual artists, illustrators, prose writers, sculptors, woodcarvers, stonemasons, letter cutters, curators, gallerists, and more.
Many of these collaborators are still alive and are themselves significant figures within modernist art and craft movements. Moreover, their memories provide a priceless insight into the methods, character, and biography of a major contemporary artist. Including interviews and texts from over 30 of these collaborators, the new book 'Crafting Arcadia: On Collaborating with Ian Hamilton Finlay' will shed new light on Finlay as a poet and artist, a personality, a collaborator, a friend, and sometimes an adversary.
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