Abstract
Sorley MacLean’s poetry would be painfully abstract if it were not for his use of landscape as symbol. It is the landscape that gives form and sensuousness to his ideas and that lets him communicate them as emotion. He circles between the abstract and the specific. Skye is recognisably itself and a terrible roller-coaster of self-loathing, exhilaration, tenderness and despair. To separate MacLean’s art from the landscape would be to separate form and content.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Storr: Unfolding Landscape |
Editors | Angus Farquhar |
Place of Publication | Edinburgh |
Publisher | Luath Press |
Pages | 91-96 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Publication status | Published - 2005 |
Event | the storr – unfolding landscape - NVA - Trotternish, Skye, United Kingdom Duration: 1 Aug 2005 → 17 Sept 2005 http://www.nva.org.uk/storr/home.html |
Art event
Art event | the storr – unfolding landscape - NVA |
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Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
Period | 1/08/05 → 17/09/05 |
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