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Picture poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:

And the Devine Gentleman / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-09839-10033
Scope and Contents

This geometric image formed by typing the letter "l" and a slash is a Christmas card to the Furnivals. It is stored within an opened envelope collaged onto a page of Furnival's "Liber Amicorum 1964-1984," a book held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

apollinaire soul-ladder to twin elysian sky (250369) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-56287-59750
Scope and Contents

Houedard has typed "for dsw" (identity?) at uppper left dide of this work/ -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

book plate for patric morrissey (241268) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-56518-59748
Scope and Contents

Patric Morrisey was the art dealer who owned Bear Lane Gallery in Oxford England. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

box with bodhirattua bandage (010267) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-56136-9999579
Scope and Contents

A large box of typed dashes and slashes has an open cover. The title is typed with the use of multiple dashes to create a bold typeface. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

breton tautad & the death of dido (230369) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-43528-45601
Scope and Contents The image is a flaming pyre. The tantad or sacred fire of the ancient Bretons is a ceremony for midsummer rejoicings. It was part of the mediaeval monastic life in England with the ruins in Fountains Abbey. Dido refers to the mythologic story of Dido and Aeneus and the image of this work to the funeral pyre that Dido constructed before her suicide because Aeneus has left her. Although her relationship with Aeneas spans only this one book of the Aeneid, Dido has become a literary icon for the tragic lover, like Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Though at times Aeneas's happiness in his love for Dido seems to equal hers, it is with considerably less grief and anxiety that he is able to leave her in Carthage and go back about the business of bringing the survivors of Troy to Italy and founding Rome. Whereas Dido not only loves Aeneas but hopes he and his warriors will strengthen her city, Aeneas's actions are the result of a momentary abandonment of his true duties and responsibilities....
Dates: 1969

delphei (230469) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-08737-8911
Scope and Contents

The typed image depicts three major clusters of red periods above a long diagonal red typed line made of slashes. The text at page bottom reads "ritual dionysian cycle c. 8th cent bc used in pythonian winter rites (cult-furrow o 'sulcus' restored)" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

for john furnival split dot (120763) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

 Item
Identifier: CC-55818-58811
Scope and Contents

The image is formed solely from slashes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

grass gesture 2 (161170) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-56913-10000279
Scope and Contents

There are three versions of this piece. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

grass gesture 3 (161170) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-56914-10000280
Scope and Contents

There are three versions of this piece. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

grass gesture (161170) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-56908-10000274
Scope and Contents

There are three versions of this piece. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

leaning on an angel (750717) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-33088-34713
Scope and Contents

Interrupted horizontal lines, formed from joined underline marks, delineate the wall of a tube depicted on-end. The title is typed with Houedard's slash/dash font. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

mandala of directional buddhas & consorts (300167) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-56135-58926
Scope and Contents

There are eight typed red opened boxes composed of slashes, dashes and apostrophes.Ther are also two clusters of period dots. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

orbor-ooo (030567) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-56256-9999699
Scope and Contents

This typing is done on special paper with a shinny surface and a watermark. There are five blurred ink dots at the end of typed red lines of dashes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

[Robert X Cecil - Lord Amulree] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1956

 Item
Identifier: CC-55366-222666
Scope and Contents

Lord Amularee (1900-1983) was an important British geriatrician. No information on the internet could be found for Robert X Cecil. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1956

sliced lurch (060170) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-08656-8829
Scope and Contents

The title, "sliced lurch," was formed with densely packed typed dashes as well Houedard's initials, "dsh" and the date. The image consists of planes typed in red and black ink. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

super bliss (110167) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-56128-9999572
Scope and Contents

There is a Roman arch form typed in the middle of the page surrounded by several typed mantras. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

the democratic way of life (5 Oct 1967) / Dom Sylvester Houedard., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-56802-10000170
Scope and Contents

There is no such word as 'deomcratic;' perhaps this is a misspelling of democratic. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967