Inherent Vice — John Barbour

Inherent Vice


john barbour (1395)

Discover John Barbour, Scotland's first major literary figure! Explore his epic poem 'The Brus' & historical verse. A key voice of 14th-century Scottish literature.

For John Barbour, the notions of unmaking or the barely made carried resonances of mortality. This artist pursued a gently ironic artistic practice, exploring the paradox between form and formlessness in a manner he referred to as a kind of