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The polarising poet, sculptor and ‘avant-gardener’ who maintained a private militia

On the centenary of his birth, we remember visionary artist Ian Hamilton Finlay, whose heavies, the 'Saint-Just Vigilantes’, once vandalised the offices of Apollo magazine

Digby Warde-Aldam

‘Et in Arcadia Ego’, 1976, by Ian Hamilton Finlay (with John Andrew) © THE ESTATE OF IAN HAMILTON FINLAY © ESTATE OF JOHN ANDREW

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