Again with the Telegraph Obits!
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mckenzeeIan Hamilton Finlay
Ian Hamilton Finlay, who died yesterday aged 80, was an artist, poet, moralist and “avant gardener”...
His father James lost the fortune which he had made smuggling with a schooner (in Nassau), and the family returned to an impoverished life in Glasgow...
After the war Hamilton Finlay returned to Orkney, which he described as “Arcady”, and became a shepherd...
Totally out of context quote from a few years later:
“We had constructed a panzer tank and were letting off explosions and so on,” Hamilton Finlay later explained. “It was a thoroughly satisfactory day.”
Some felt that Hamilton Finlay’s garden made determinedly idiosyncratic and highly allusive comments on art, nature and classical culture, provoking debate on the legacy of the Enlightenment and asserting the need for spirituality in democracy...
Known to his friends as “wee Ian”, Hamilton Finlay’s soft-spoken manner surprised those familiar only with his work. He was married twice, and had a son and a daughter.
I skipped most of the interesting parts. Click his name to learn more.
Ian Hamilton Finlay, who died yesterday aged 80, was an artist, poet, moralist and “avant gardener”...
His father James lost the fortune which he had made smuggling with a schooner (in Nassau), and the family returned to an impoverished life in Glasgow...
After the war Hamilton Finlay returned to Orkney, which he described as “Arcady”, and became a shepherd...
Totally out of context quote from a few years later:
“We had constructed a panzer tank and were letting off explosions and so on,” Hamilton Finlay later explained. “It was a thoroughly satisfactory day.”
Some felt that Hamilton Finlay’s garden made determinedly idiosyncratic and highly allusive comments on art, nature and classical culture, provoking debate on the legacy of the Enlightenment and asserting the need for spirituality in democracy...
Known to his friends as “wee Ian”, Hamilton Finlay’s soft-spoken manner surprised those familiar only with his work. He was married twice, and had a son and a daughter.
I skipped most of the interesting parts. Click his name to learn more.