Those of us who would like to believe that the gilding of civilisation can disguise the roughly hewn material beneath will inevitably find, time and again, that nature bubbles and bursts its way through—and realise just how irksome this can be.
At the same time as the Poet-Artists exhibition was showing in the Athenaeum, our partner gallery, CASSIUS&Co., was showing works by the famous American satirist, Robert Crumb. The exhibition was accompanied by a selection of satirical books reflecting Crumb’s many influences.
To coincide with the centenary of the artist’s birth, Sotheran’s published a catalogue dedicated to the printed materials - cards, books, broadsides, notices and more - of the prolific Scottish artist, poet and gardener Ian HamiltonFinlay.
