Ian Hamilton Finlay | 4 Baskets

Ian Hamilton Finlay
4 Baskets
Little Sparta, Scotland: Wild Hawthorn Press 1990, 1991.
[unpaginated], softcover
Edition of 250


"Each page features a drawing, by Kathleen Lindsley, of a wicker basket; the drawings are detailed, realistic, and charming. Each drawing has as a title a single word, an adjective drawn from the cultural vocabulary of the Enlightenment. The  first basket is entitled "Domestic" and it contains three French loaves and a bottle of wine; the second is entitled “Pastoral,” and it contains a fishing net and
an abundant sheaf of corn; the third is entitled “Parnassian,” and it contains a wreath of laurel leaves, the poet’s crown; the fourth is entitled “Sublime,” and it contains two severed heads."

- Stephen Scobie