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Picture poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1791 Collections and/or Records:

Homage To Frith & Co. / Phillips, Tom., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-38807-40721
Scope and Contents

The image of this card includes "A Humument" imagery. The poem reads "only staring at portions of the park." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Homage To Frith & Co. / Phillips, Tom; Finch P., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-38806-40720
Scope and Contents

The image of this card includes "A Humument" imagery. The poem reads "only staring at portions of the park." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

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
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Homage to Ian Hamilton Finlay's Homage to Jonathan Williams / Anonymous., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-26910-27383
Dates: 1977
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Homage To J.M. Synge / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Manduca, John Borg., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-12029-12252
Scope and Contents

The drawing on this card consists of an abstract image of an aircraft carrier. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Homage to Jonathan Williams / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Harvey, Michael., 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-11969-12192
Scope and Contents

Card depicts Barque with list of sails innumerated with instructions, "White only." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Homage to Kahnweiler: Juan Gris His Knife and Fork / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Barrie, Stuart., 1972

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Identifier: CC-11976-12199
Scope and Contents Stephen Scobie (Earthquakes& Explorations, Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 1997, hard cover book, pp 182-189) made the following comments on this poem." The reduction of 'Life and Work' to 'Knife and Fork' is in tune with this whole mode of affectionate distancing; but it also has further resonances, which may be seen by juxtaposing Finlay's homage to Kahnweiler with Gertrude Stein's homage to Juan Gris: Therein Juan Gris is not anything but more than anything. He made that thing. He made the thing. He made a thing to be measured. Later having done it he could be sorry it was not why they liked it. And so he made it very well loving and he made it with plainly playing. And he liked a knife and all but reasonably. (Gertrude Stein, 'The Life of Juan Gris The Life and Death of Juan Gris,' transition 4 Uuly 1927]). So here is Juan Gris (1887-1927); and here is his knife ('reasonably': Gertrude Stein, in tribute to her friend); and here are his knife and his fork (and...
Dates: 1972
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Homage to Kandinsky / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Costley, Ron., 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-11941-12164
Dates: 1972
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Homage to Malevich / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Harvey, Michael., 1973

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Identifier: CC-12677-12920
Scope and Contents

Finlay (Archive entry) indicates that suprematist crosses of Malevich appear to him as abstracted early airplanes and suggests that an image from "Malevich's book" looks like an aerial dogfight. He adds a black cross to the picture with fire from its side to suggest that an enemy plane shot down by the red colored cross-airplane image of Malevich, "ace" of the avant garde. The suprematist elements are given a chalky surface as if colored with crayons. The trade edition of print was unsigned. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Homage to Mozart , 1970

 Item — Folder 61: [Barcode: 31858072537958]
Identifier: CC-12478-12705
Scope and Contents

Depicts a sailing ship with its name "Mozart." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

Homage To Pop Art / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; McK Glen, Sydney., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-11982-12205
Dates: 1973
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Homage to Post-Impressionism / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Simig, Pia Maria., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-35194-36928
Scope and Contents

The image of this card is a color photograph of a toy sail boat from above simulating a bright abstract image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Homage to Poussin / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Manduca, John Borg., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-11755-11973
Dates: 1977
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets (unprocessed)

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
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

Homage to Seurat / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Costley, Ron., 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-11965-12188
Scope and Contents

The image is a connect the numbers with the points line drawing to symbolize the pointilistic style of Seurat. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Homage to the L.A. Doust Art Manuals / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-12006-12229
Scope and Contents

Drawing is a seascape with a sailboat with a single sale known as a ketch. The poem splits the word sketch into s & ketch. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Homage to the Square, the Blacks, Ian Hamilton Finlay & Marshall McLuhan, 1968

 Item — Box 350: [Barcode: 31858072490869]
Identifier: CC-23495-23940
Scope and Contents

Printed on white paper. The image on the inside back cover is a small, hand drawn, black square. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS

Homage to the Square, the Blacks, Ian Hamilton Finley & Marshall McLuhan, 1968

 Item — Box 350: [Barcode: 31858072490869]
Identifier: CC-23427-23871
Scope and Contents

Printed on gray paper; the Sackner Archive also has a copy printed on white paper. The image on the inside back cover is a small, hand drawn, black square. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / CORRESPONDENCE

Homage To Victor Silvester / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Harvey, Michael., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-11983-12206
Scope and Contents Image on the card is a map of a sea battle off the Italian coast during WWII that has the appearance of choreographed dance steps. 'Victor Sylvester's Ballroom Orchestra' was one of the leading dance band of the 1940s era. Victor Sylvester's early career was as a world champion exhibition dancer, who was also teaching ballroom dancing with his sister Gwen. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, there was a lack of good dance recordings that featured a constant tempo, something Sylvester needed for his dance studio. Most of the studios used a rather simple hand-wound phonograph to play recordings. With characteristic verve, Sylvester assembled a few musicians and made his own recording featuring songs with the pronounced beat so needed by dancers. Soon, other dance instructors were buying his records. Among his releases were "Ballroom Dancing with Victor Silvester & His Ballroom Orchestra", and "Dancing On My Heart". Interestingly, he also authored the book "Victor Sylvester's...
Dates: 1973
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Homage to Walter Reekie's Ring Netters / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Costley, Ron., 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-11968-12191
Scope and Contents

The image depicts the five Olympic rings. *WEB 1998: [Email]seamus.cooney@wmich.edu: This should have Ron Costley's name added to the author line. Sackner: correction made. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

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