Wave Rock.
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Title |
Wave Rock. |
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Creator |
Finlay, Ian Hamilton (Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, and poet, 1925-2006) |
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Date |
1966 |
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Cultural Context |
Scottish (Scots)
British
European |
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Style/Period |
Contemporary |
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Subject |
Poetry
Language
Lettering (Layout features)
Graphic design
Inscriptions
Light |
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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) |
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Material |
Glass (material) |
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Technique |
Sculpting
Lettering (processes)
Sandblasting |
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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". |
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Work Type |
Sculpture
Concrete poetry
Visual poetry |
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Repository |
Private collection |
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Source |
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.174, fig.89) |
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Digital Publisher |
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center |
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Format |
image/jpeg |
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Digital File Name |
VRC 826-13.jpg |
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