HAMILTON FINLAY, Ian. Canal Stripe Series 4. Fettes Row, Edinburgh: Wild Hawthorn Press. 1964.
176 × 280 mm. Publisher’s stapled wrappers with yellow dust jacket with silkscreen printed titles; pp.36.
Kinetic booklet-poem with silkscreen printed text. Finlay dedicated the book to Robin Lithgow. ‘Mimetically deriving its constructive energies from landscape (the limited variations suggested by canals) and meditating on the significance of landscape itself, the poem occupies a position on the frontier between art and nature. It can help explain what lay behind Finlayʼs decision to place poems in a natural environment: not a desire to merge his art with the forces of nature, but rather the need to put its rhetorical energies severely to the test. So it is that Canal Stripe 4 became one of Finlayʼs first constructions specifically designed for a garden or park.ʼ (Yves Abrioux).
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