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Finger of a Frenchman
David Kinloch
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Description for Finger of a Frenchman
Paperback. Finger of a Frenchman explores looking, and writing about looking: looking at surfaces and beyond them, at what is depicted and what is hidden in shadow, at how a transient chemistry of light may be fixed in colour and words. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 143 x 10. Weight in Grams: 148.
Finger of a Frenchman explores looking, and writing about looking: looking at surfaces and beyond them, at what is depicted and what is hidden in shadow, at how a transient chemistry of light may be fixed in colour and words. Kinloch's poems are portraits of artists and reflections on art through five centuries of the artistic bond between Scotland and France. John Acheson, Master of the Scottish Mint, takes Mary, Queen of Scots' portrait for the Scottish coinage; Esther Inglis paints the first self-portrait by a Scottish artist; Jean-Jacques Rousseau ticks off his portrait painter, Allan Ramsay, and Eugene Delacroix ... Read more
Finger of a Frenchman explores looking, and writing about looking: looking at surfaces and beyond them, at what is depicted and what is hidden in shadow, at how a transient chemistry of light may be fixed in colour and words. Kinloch's poems are portraits of artists and reflections on art through five centuries of the artistic bond between Scotland and France. John Acheson, Master of the Scottish Mint, takes Mary, Queen of Scots' portrait for the Scottish coinage; Esther Inglis paints the first self-portrait by a Scottish artist; Jean-Jacques Rousseau ticks off his portrait painter, Allan Ramsay, and Eugene Delacroix ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847770745
SKU
V9781847770745
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Ref
99-17
About David Kinloch
David Kinloch was born in Glasgow in 1959. A graduate of the Universities of Glasgow and Oxford, he is currently Senior Lecturer in creative writing at the University of Strathclyde. His preivous poetry collections include Un Tour D'Ecosse (Carcanet, 2001) and In My Father's House (Carcanet, 2005). A recipient of the Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Award, Kinloch has also published ... Read more
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