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Picture poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1791 Collections and/or Records:

Kite: Willing Wings / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-11942-12165
Scope and Contents

Finlay uses the kite as a metaphor for a leaflet dropping, propoganda, aircraft aimed at the Arts Council of Great Britain and the Fulcrum Press to argue his displeasure with these two groups. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Klassische Landschaft , 1985

 Item — Folder 61: [Barcode: 31858072537958]
Identifier: CC-12569-12801
Scope and Contents

Two versions of a landscape by Johann Christian Reinhart are altered by the words Xaipe and W ave inscribed into stones in the foreground. The former means hail or farewell in Greek and ave in the latter picture means the same in Latin. The addition of w creating the word wave relates to the flowing spring. There is a stone in Finlay's garden inscribed WAVE/ave. Printed by the Stellar Press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

KY 365 [1] / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Gunn, Ronald., 1970

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Identifier: CC-11877-12098
Scope and Contents

The sculpture KY 365 is placed in front of a clump of trees and a cross in Finlay's Garden. KY 365 is a designation for a Scottish fishing ship. In this photograph, the clump of trees serve as a metaphor for the masts of a ship and the number "365" number of days in a year. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

La Frontera / Friedman, Ed ; MacConnell, Kim., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-11762-11981
Scope and Contents

Proports to be a "modurn mezod ov iuniversol Ingles," however the text and the illustrations are totally unrelated. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

La Frontera / Friedman, Ed ; MacConnell, Kim., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-11663-11880
Scope and Contents

Proports to be a "modurn mezod ov iuniversol Ingles," however the text and the illustrations are totally unrelated. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

la poesia e prohibitiva - poetry is prohibitive / Vaccari, Franco., 1971

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Identifier: CC-31674-33181
Scope and Contents

The recto of this piece is a listing in two columns, Italian and English, of aphorisms beginning with "poetry is...." The verso continues the listing at its top with the last line reading, "poetry is this." Below this line is an enlarged black and white photographic grid of six pictures of the same attack dog. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

La Tricoteuse / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987

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Identifier: CC-12129-12353
Scope and Contents

The title in English is "Knitter" and the image is the face of a woman. By combining the image and the caption, Finlay's intent is to paint Catherine Millet, his antagonist, as a "knitter" apparently to give the impression of her lack of seriousness on literary issues. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Laconic / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Costley, Ron., 1987

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Identifier: CC-12400-12626
Scope and Contents

This print depicts the word "Laconic" (terse) inscribed on a guillotine blade. Beneath it on the red background is inscribed the phrase "Homage to Neo-Classicism." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

L'Atoll / The Atoll / Smith, William Jay ; Le Floch, Jean-Claude ; Sonja Haussmann, translator., 2003

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Identifier: CC-43227-45286
Scope and Contents

The happy holidays card says "with love & gratitude for your great help with the exhibition & with love & very best wishes as ever, Sonja & Bill." The print appears to be an abstract image of a Pacific island (atoll). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003