TEMPLE OF APOLLO/SAINT-JUST. 1994.
£15.00
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1994
8 x 6.8cm, 4pp card with a digital photographic montage of the proposed temple along with a poem by Finlay internally:
Near
the donkey’s fence
the rowing boat
leaves
for the Claude.
Claude is perhaps Claude Lorrain painter of idealised landscapes often looking out to see with a sunset causing a sense of wanderlust but the word is similar to the Clyde; the Scottish river that begins at the Falls of the Clyde which is not so far from Dunsyre and Little Sparta. The rowing boat also is perhaps being compared to an upturned leaf in its leaving.
Finlay also produced an artist’s book as a proposal for this monument which again compares one thing – the vengeful god Apollo with Saint-Just another famously judgemental figure. VG+.
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