A COUNTRY LANE. 1988.
£65.00
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1988
15.5 x 10.6cm, 24pp with 4pp light green end papers, card covers and printed dust jacket. The full title of the book is “A Country Lane with Stiles” and explains Finlay’s putative “country lane” which was expected to be a major installation in the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival. However Finlay withdrew his involvement in the Festival in protest at the Strathclyde Region’s dispute with him over the Garden Temple.
The lane was to be a metaphoric peon to De Stijl the modernist Dutch art movement and Finlay lists the flowers and trees that were to be planted.
The rest of the book are poetic considerations of stiles illustrated by Laurie Clark.
STILES 1
Thesis: fence.
Anti-thesis: gate.
Synthesis: stile
One of 500 printed. VG+. Not in Murray’s catalogue raisonne.
2 in stock
