TERROR IS THE PIETY OF THE REVOLUTION. A COMMENTARY. 1986.

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1986<BR>
11 x 7.7cm, 16pp with printed card covers. A text by Stoddart on sculptural works installed in the Garden Temple considers in the main just one – Terror is the Piety of the Revolution – where the author claims it is a work open to interpretation but “it clears a no-man’s-land between the two factions of Neo-classicists and Modernists.”<BR>
Murray places this in his catalogue raisonne as the last work in the “Wild Hawthorn Press” section – by which he really means it is the last of the books/works published by other authors who are not Finlay himself. The gap in time between the 13th publication in that section and this one is 20 years – which makes us question that categorisation although Murray is right (without actually saying so) to note that Finlay did not publish any other authors other than himself and collaborations after 1968 (with the cessation of Poor. Old Tired. Horse.), We have kept to Murray’s organisation scheme here but with slight qualms. Scarce book – VG+ although very slight rust to one staple<BR><BR>