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Picture poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1791 Collections and/or Records:

Motoring Chocolate Soldier (Panzer Grenadier) / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Heideken, Carl., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-11267-11482
Scope and Contents

The card depicts a sepia toned photograph of a soldier. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Mumbles: Horrible Puns and Overworked Cliches. No.7 / John Eberly., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-37708-39583
Scope and Contents

This booklet depicts one to two cartoons or picture poems to a page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

My Mother Claimed That a Woman's Legs Are So Strong That No Man Can Spread Them If She Doesn't Let Him / Dezso, Andrea., 2006

 Item
Identifier: CC-47505-68502
Scope and Contents

This is a copy of the original hand stitched piece purchased by the Sackner Archive from the exhibition in the Museum of Design in New York titled "Pricked.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

My Mother Claimed That a Woman's Legs Are So Strong That No Man Can Spread Them If She Doesn't Let Him / Dezso, Andrea., 2006

 Item
Identifier: CC-48163-69186
Scope and Contents

This drawing was shown at the Museum of Design in New York in the exhibition entitled "Pricked" (2007). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

My Mother Claimed That you can get a horrible... / Dezso, Andrea., 2006

 Item
Identifier: CC-47384-68381
Scope and Contents

This is a copy of the original hand stitched piece purchased by the Sackner Archive from the exhibition in the Museum of Design in New York titled "Pricked.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

My Mother Claimed That you can get a horrible... / Dezso, Andrea., 2006

 Item
Identifier: CC-48164-69187
Scope and Contents

This drawing was shown at the Museum of Design in New York in the exhibition entitled "Pricked" (2007). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

Nadel Buch, 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-49054-70092
Scope and Contents

The images in this book consist of varied arrangements of hair pins, some with titles. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Nailsworth (Title Page) / Furnival, John., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-13170-13471
Scope and Contents

This is a title page for a series of prints dealing with the English town of Nailsworth and its environs where the Welsh poet W.H. Davies spent the last years of his life. The collaged addition is a map of the area. Stored in the Locative and Vocative Case. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Names / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-42859-44900
Scope and Contents

The etching or woodcut black and white image on the front and back card covers by Hincks depicts three fishing boats. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Names on Trees / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Stewart, Mark., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-12087-12311
Scope and Contents

Image on card is taken from Jacques Blanchard's classical painting, "Paris and Oenone" that shows the two lovers seated next to a tree with a written caption on the trunk. The caption reads, " Five oval plaques inscribed with the names of classical lovers, and five rectangular plaques naming particular species of trees, were exhibited in the 'English Garden' in the summer of 1984." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

National Flags Series: Utopia / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Harvey, Michael., 1975

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Identifier: CC-12013-12236
Scope and Contents

The image of the flag is an empty rectangle serving as a metaphor for Utopia according to Finlay where no individual nations exist. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

National Flags Series: Valhalla / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Harvey, Michael., 1975

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Identifier: CC-12018-12241
Scope and Contents

Image conmsists of three armored black tanks lined up horizontally on a background of a red colored diamond shape. The red color element signifies shelling and destruction of these tanks by their enemy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Nature Is the Devil / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-12167-12391
Scope and Contents

In this card, Finlay interprets Samuel Coleridge statement "Nature is the Devil in a fancy waistcoat" to "Nature is a storm trooper in a camouflage smock." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Nature Is the Devil... / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987

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Identifier: CC-12996-13288
Scope and Contents

Finlay substitutes the words, storm trooper and camouflage smock for the Devil and fancy waistcoat, respectively, in the following quotation from Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Nature is the Devil in a fancy waistcoat." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Nature over again after Poussin / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Bann S ; Paterson W., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-12533-12761
Scope and Contents

Wilma Paterson contributed a music score on "julie.' Finlay contributed two pages on "Unconnected Sentences on Gardening" including "A Garden is not an object but a process, Modern Sculpture is "Wilfuly" ignorant, Technology - Epic Convenience, A liberal's compost heap is his castle, and Weather is the chief content of a garden, Camouflage is the last form of classical landscape painting - It represents not 'this' tree but fields and trees, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Necktank (1918) / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Harvey, Michael., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-12355-12581
Scope and Contents

This image of a World War I armored vehicle is camouflaged with red and yellow stripes causing a play on words, viz., necktank vs. necktie. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973