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Picture poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1791 Collections and/or Records:

Gronk Random Number Series: The Year of the Frog 2nd Ed.. No.2 / bp Nichol., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-38780-40693
Scope and Contents

This book is a reissuing of "Ganglia Concrete Series #3" with the original sheets and a new title page and colophon. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Grove / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Harvey, Micheal., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-35379-37114
Scope and Contents

The color of the card is green to suggest a grove but the poem lists nautical terms. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Grove, n. , 1987

 Item — Folder 60: [Barcode: 31858072537941]
Identifier: CC-12502-12729
Scope and Contents

The image of a classical Greek temple fronted by trees is based upon a quotation from Milton's "The Passion" viz., The gentle neighborhood of GROVE and spring, Would soon unbosum all their echos mild..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Hand Book / Collins, Patricia., 1998

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Identifier: CC-35190-36924
Scope and Contents

All the images in this book are hands captioned with text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Handley Page Heyford / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1978

 Item
Identifier: CC-12037-12260
Scope and Contents

The card depicts a WWI fighting air plane on its upper half and a sailing barge on its lower half. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Happy Bicentennial / Padin, Clemente., 1976

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Identifier: CC-47187-49930
Scope and Contents

This book deals with making of a bomb to celebrate the bicentennial anniversary of the founding of the United States. Following this publication, there is a gap in Padin's artistic activities sice he was in prison from 1977-1979 for his artistic activities by the disctatorship at that time and was unable to resume his activities until 1984. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

happy fuck a llama day - the foghorns of the barges / levy, d.a.., 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-33537-35187
Scope and Contents

The image accompanying this poem is an abstraction of a barge (on the Cayuga river flowing through Cleveland) with musical notes eminating from its foghorn. The poem refers to the fact that the river caught on fire because of heavy pollution near the time the poem was written. The title of the poem is "the foghorns of the barges" and reads, sing to me mournful - sing to me mad - sing to me mist and magic - and everyone else as the city sneaks out of the haze - we laugh and throw firecrackers at it." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Happy Holloween / Freeman, Jane., 1987

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Identifier: CC-12691-12934
Scope and Contents

Freedman collaged a black cat onto the background of a Motherwell painting, Black in Hiding (1976). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

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

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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

Harvester PD98 / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1996

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Identifier: CC-35227-36961
Scope and Contents

The image on this card reproduces a stamp for the exhibition, "Imagined Lands" at the City Art Centre in Edinburgh, 1996. It depicts the name of an old fishing boat and the new European Union type of fishboxes as a comment on the decline in the national fisheries. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Haute Fidelite / Levy, Miller., 1998

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Identifier: CC-34987-36706
Scope and Contents

This is a painting related to the sculpture by Levy that is also held by the Sackner Archive. The painting was done over a color photograph transmitted by e-mail. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Haute fidelite (l'homme l'femme) / Levy, Miller., 2004

 Item
Identifier: CC-43733-45823
Scope and Contents

This is a reproduction of a painting held the Sackner Archive. This painting also is related to the sculpture by Levy that is held by the Sackner Archive. The painting was done over a color photograph transmitted by e-mail. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

he loves her: Valentine / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1992

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Identifier: CC-12262-12486
Scope and Contents

The back cover of the card reads, "Valentine." The flower at the beginning of each phrase of the poem is depicted in frontal view. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Head-Ley / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987

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Identifier: CC-35583-37327
Scope and Contents

Gywn Headley, the author of "Follies, A National Trust Guide," made disparaging comments about Finlay's Temple Garden. In this card, Finlay depicts a guillotine scene with a severed head. The author's name is printed on the image as two parts, "head" referring to the severed head and "ley" meaning law. The image is captioned with "Terror is the piety of the Revolution." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987