NAJ 81/82 (2025), A5 book, 232 pages, 231 illustrations

To mark the centenary of the birth of Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006), the New Arcadian Journal reflects on the Little Spartan Wars and on the commissions to create two gardens in Paris to commemorate the Bicentenary of the French Revolution. These were cancelled when the French government buckled in the face of a smear campaign waged against Finlay by a Parisian art media faction. The proposals for these two Parisian gardens are published to emphasise the splendour of the ambition that embraced the pastoral in ways that were intimate at Versailles and monumental at Thiais. The ephemeral Letter Tattoos have also been retrieved and comprise a unique and extensive set of Finlay’s Sentences.

Virtuous Landscapes was realised through the generous permission granted by the Ian Hamilton Finlay Estate to reproduce copyright material.

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