Noble Truths, Beautiful Lies, & Landscape Architecture, 1993
Scope and Contents
This book is a thesis dissertation for the degree of Master of Landscape Architecture, Cornell University. Its content deals almost exclusively with Ian Hamilton Finlay's spurned 1988 commission for a revolutionary garden at the former site of the Hotel des Menus Plaisirs, Versailles. Keeney describes the project and the political fall-out when the commision was withdrawn. This book is filed with Finlay material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates
- Creation: 1993
Creator
- Finlay, Ian Hamilton, 1925-2006 (Person)
Full Extent
0 See container summary (1 soft cover book (218 pages) in cover (acetate)) ; 28 x 16 x 1.8 cm
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Physical Location
alpha shelf
Custodial History
The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, gift from Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.
General
Published: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University. Nationality of creator: American. General: Added by: RED; updated by: MARVIN.
Genre / Form
Repository Details
Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository
125 W. Washington St.
Main Library
Iowa City Iowa
319-335-5921
