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Little Sparta is a sculpture garden created by poet and artist Ian Hamilton Finlay in the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh. It features artworks, poems and plants that explore themes such as nature, history and politics.
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Little Sparta is a garden at Dunsyre in the Pentland Hills in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, created by artist and poet Ian Hamilton Finlay and his wife Sue Finlay, since 1966. The 5-acre (2-hectare) Arcadian garden includes concrete poetry in sculptural form, polemic, and philosophical aphorisms, together with sculptures and two temples.
Little Sparta is a sculpture park and garden created by the poet-artist Ian Hamilton Finlay in the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh. It features over 270 artworks and poetic elements that explore themes such as nature, war, antiquity and modernity.
Sep 4, 2012 · Ian Hamilton Finlay's Little Sparta: An Artist's Garden Andrew Dickson visits Little Sparta, for 40 years the home and studio of Scottish artist Ian Hamilton Finlay, who was also a poet, writer...
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- The Guardian
Nov 8, 2012 · Ian Hamilton Finlay's greatest work is arguably Little Sparta, the garden he created outside his home in the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh.In 1966 Finlay and...
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- Tate
Nov 8, 2012 · Learn about the artist's vision and legacy of Little Sparta, a sculptural and poetic garden near Edinburgh. Watch a film by his son Alec Finlay, who shares his memories of growing up with this living artwork.
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May 4, 2020 · For its creator however—the Scottish artist, poet, publisher and self-proclaimed “avant-gardener” Ian Hamilton Finlay —Little Sparta was a “ garden poem.”. Nestled in the Pentland Hills to Edinburgh’s south-west, it was Finlay’s home and workplace for over three decades from 1966.