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Title
Wave
Rock
.
Creator
Finlay, Ian Hamilton (Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, and poet, 1925-2006)
Date
1966
Cultural Context
Scottish (Scots)
British
European
Style/Period
Contemporary
Theme
Sculpture (visual work)
Concrete poetry
Visual poetry
Poetry
Poems
Language (verbal communication)
Semantics
Linguistics
Words
Text (layout feature)
Letters (signs)
Lowercase letters
Lettering (layout features)
Typefaces (type forms)
Typography
Graphic design
Inscriptions
Landscapes (representations)
Seascapes
Bodies of water
Boats
Watercraft
Vehicles (transportation)
Blur
Light (energy)
Subject
Sculpture
Poetry
Language
Lettering (Layout features)
Graphic design
Inscriptions
Landscapes (Representations)
Seascapes
Bodies of water
Boats
Vessels
Vehicles
Light
Description
"
Alongside
his
own
production
of
visual
poetry
,
which
took
the
form
of
silkscreen
prints
as
well
as
inscribed
objects
,
Finlay
was
significant
for his
involvement
in the
'small
press'
publishing
activities
associated
with the
alternative
poetry
movement
of the
1960s
. In
1961
he
co-founded
the
Wild
Hawthorn
Press
with
Jessie
McGuffie
and in
1962
the
magazine
Poor
.
Old
.
Tired
.
Horse
. This was to
run
until
1968
.
Such
enterprises
helped
to
open
up
a
relatively
insular
Scottish
culture
to
international
influences
.
(Caption
,
p.174)
; ""
'Concrete
poetry'
,
involving
explorations
of the
'abstract'
visual
possibilities
of
language
, had been
pioneered
in
1956
by the
Swiss
poet
Eugen
Gomringer
and would be
realized
most
fully
in
three-dimensional
terms
by the
Scottish
artist
Ian
Hamilton
Finlay
. In
Wave
Rock
(1966)
Finlay
made
palpable
[Robert]
Smithson's
disintegrative
pairing
of
landscape
and
language
.
Sandblasted
onto
glass
,
words
visually
enact
the
principles
of
fixity
,
fluidity
, and
erosion
to
which
they are
semantically
tied
,
whilst
the
fluctuations
of
light
through
the
object
reinforce
the
theme
that
is
'written'
into
it.
"
(Excerpt
,
pp.174-175)
Material
Glass (material)
Technique
Sculpting
Lettering (processes)
Sandblasting
Inscription
The words WAVE ROCK and the letters composing the words WAVE ROCK have been sandblasted onto the glass, with the landscape image in the "background".
Work Type
Sculpture
Concrete poetry
Visual poetry
Poetry
Repository
Private collection
Source
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.174, fig.89)
Digital Publisher
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format
image/jpeg
Digital File Name
VRC
826-13.jpg
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