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The conflict of ancient and modern Ian Hamilton Finlay is one of our finest living artists. Tom Lubbock reflects on the diversity of his work and its classical inspiration, as displayed in two new exhibitions

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20020326
Author:Tom Lubbock

The image shows a modern battleship in a diagrammatic drawing, white outline on a deep blue ground. The operational parts of the battleship are labelled A, B, C, and D, and these letters cross- refer to a key written below. But what the key tells you is not the names of these parts. It says: A Doric, B Ionic, C Corinthian, D Composite - the names of the classical architectural orders. And beneath this there's written a sentence (a quotation from Hermann Hesse). "For the temples of the Greeks our homesickness lasts for ever".

This is a work of Ian Hamilton Finlay, and in several ways ...

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