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This book is stored in a bp Nichol box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book consists of a collection of the following essays. Raines contributed a poem about Stonypath. Bann discussed Heroic Emblems by Finlay (designated Picture Poems in the Sackner Archive). Douglas Hall wrote of Finlay's collaboration with Jud Fine in their series of 20 drawings. Miles Orvell analyzed Finlay's "Pacific." Scobie provided an essay on Finlay's picture poem, "Homage to Kahnweiler." Finlay created a pun on Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler's critical book on Juan Gris "Life" and "Work" with the caption Juan Gris: His "Knife" and "Fork." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Raines contributes a poem about Stonypath. Bann discusses Heroic Emblems by Finlay (designated Picture Poems in the Sackner Archive). Douglas Hall writes of Finlay's collaboration with Jud Fine in their series of 20 drawings. Miles Orvell analyzes Finlay's "Pacific." Scobie provides an essay on Finlay's picture poem, "Homage to Kahnweiler." Finlay creates a pun on Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler's critical book on Juan Gris "Life" and "Work" with the caption Juan Gris: His "Knife" and "Fork." Pencilled-in corrections in an unknown hand have been made for two typographic errors, 'r' for 't' on page 7 to change the word 'takes' to 'rakes' and 'n' for 'r' to change the name 'Gallard' to 'Galland.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This book is about how language deals with the non-verbal and about linguistic resposes to painting. Scobie writes that the unity in this book lies "in its relation to a central complex of ideas - the interaction between language and painting: the specific case of Cubism; the extension of Cubism into Concrete Poetry." Scobie provides an excellent background of Cubism's beginnings with emphasis on the roles of Apollinaire and Daniel Kahnwieler, the art dealer. He discusses the placing of fragmented words into Cubist paintings as word-play and puns.In his chapter on concrete poetry, Scobie "attempts to situate the international movement of the 1950's and 1960's within larger cultural tendencies, such as the transition from modernism to post modernism," and he reviews the collaboration between bp Nichol, the Canadian poet and Barbara Caruso, the Canadian artist. In the following chapter, Scobie deals with sound and visual poetry and concludes this section with an analyses of the...

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This is an essay on Finlay's poem "Homage to Watteau." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The critical essay was contributed by the Canadian poet, Stephen Scobie. He states that Finlay is "a Classical artist" in contrast to "a Romantic artist." who attempts to create the artistic world out of an isolated consciousness whereas the Classical artist works within tradition as emphasized by Finlay's Hommage series to other artists. As Scobie indicates, to call Finlay a Classical artist seems paradoxical since his work appears so experimental or inventive but "Classicism" refers to -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.