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Picture poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1791 Collections and/or Records:

orbor-ooo (030567) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-56256-9999699
Scope and Contents

This typing is done on special paper with a shinny surface and a watermark. There are five blurred ink dots at the end of typed red lines of dashes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Orworks: This Is Not a Pipe. No.167., 1995

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Identifier: CC-05420-5523
Scope and Contents

Edited by Don Milliken. Theme deals with a spoof on the tobacco industry as exemplified by picture poems, one to a page, that depict these companies taking a lead in preventing smoking by minors and restricting their marketing efforts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Other Places / Zellen, Jody., 2004

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Identifier: CC-45990-48696
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive holds the original photograph, entitled "Flee," that is reproduced in this booklet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Otkyrtoje pismo (Skribentismen in der Provence), 2000

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Identifier: CC-34429-36126
Scope and Contents

One of the pamphlets that consists of a printed folded papercard sheet depicts a colored photograph of Scherstjanoi and also includes the colophon. The other pamphlet consists of Table of Contents for the picture poems in the three books. The theme of the drawings is Scherstjanoi's hieroglyphic, interpretations of the landscapes of Aix-en-Provence and Arie after Paul Cezanne and Vincent van Gogh. The individual drawings are reminiscent of those found in the books by Albrecht Genin that are also hold by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Out of the Strong Came Forth Sweetness / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Clark, Laurie., 1974

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Identifier: CC-12113-12337
Scope and Contents

This depicts a warship with helicopters hovering about it as a metaphor for bees swarming about honey. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

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

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Identifier: CC-42857-44898
Scope and Contents

The etching or woodcut black and white image on the card cover by Hincks appears to be a scene taken from Finlay's Little Sparta garden. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Pages 14 & 15 from Mars Observations / Hickman, Craig., 2001

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Identifier: CC-38914-40845
Scope and Contents

The two images in this work depict a cement walkway with graffiti images and a lawn covered with fallen leaves. The text that encircles the images is printed in Spanish with a calligraphic font and punctuation marks added to the words that are not part of the Spanish grammar. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Painting by Numbers: A Homage to Christopher Wood / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Sackett C., 1997

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Identifier: CC-35282-37016
Scope and Contents

Each page consists of the fishing number of a boat at the top, a blank space in the middle and the name of the ship with its port of call at the bottom. The typography was done by Colin Sackett. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997