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Picture poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:

Archive for Trailblazers / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Tissiman, C.; Warhol A; Cutts S; Schwitters K; Corman C; Beckett S; Roth D., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-12577-12809
Scope and Contents

The small drawings of airplanes with typed captions were done by Tissiman who signed the perforated page from which the drawings were cut. The drawings in turn were taped to each page in the booklet. The single page in Finlay's handwriting lists the text for the pages of the booklet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Flags / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Cutts, Simon., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-11959-12182
Scope and Contents

In this card, the images of chocolate candies in a box, e.g., coffee cream, chocolate pineapple, praline with pineapple, etc. are used as metaphors for flags. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Happy Picnics in Snowdrop-Time / Van Horn, Erica; Cutts, Simon., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-00787-806
Scope and Contents

The cover depicts an image of a picnic basket and the title of this work is the caption for it. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Homage To G. Seurat, 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-18089-18461
Scope and Contents

Cutts collaged candy jimmies on a card to suggest a pointillist painting. According to the catalogue of "The Gabrielle Keiller Collection: Surrealism and After" (held by the Sackner Archive), this piece was made by Cutts in his final year of art college. He dabbed a sponge in PVC glue, applied this to paper, and then immediately dipped the paper into a tin of thousands of candy cake decorations. Although the edition size comprised 50 copies, the process renders each one unique. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Homage to Seurat / Cutts, Simon., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-43095-45149
Scope and Contents

This book describes the collage work that uses cake decorations called jimmies or jubbies to suggest the tiny brush strokes of pure color seen in pointillist paintings by Seurat and other Neo-impressionist artists. Cutts reprints the correspondence between him and the Arts Council of Great Britain concerning the remounting and reissuing of the work after many of the jimmies had falllen off the card. The handcolored additions are made to a printed page of Homage to Seurat. The Sackner Archive holds a copy of this edition with the jimmies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Line Sails / Cutts, Simon., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-53741-642820
Scope and Contents

A note on the folder states that this was originally published by Gallery Number Ten, London, 1969. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Pencilling in a Porthole / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary; Cutts S., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-35239-36973
Scope and Contents

The poem reads, "Homage to Simon Cutts." The image on the card depicts a hand poking a pencil through the hull of a toy boat and might signify the "brute force" artistic efforts of Cutts perceived by Finlay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996