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Picture poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1791 Collections and/or Records:

Portsmouth City Art Project: The Water's Hours and The Sky's Hours, 1973

 Item — Folder 61: [Barcode: 31858072537958]
Identifier: CC-12801-13088
Scope and Contents

This depicts two adjacent, brown colored, ceramic or concrete, vertical slabs lettered The Water's Hours with levels drawn in blue & denoted with Roman numerals and The Sky's Hours with strokes of a sundial drawn in blue & denoted with Roman numerals, respectively. In Oct 1973, Harvey writes to Finlay with descriptions of proposals for the Portsmith City Art Project, viz., Water's & Sky's Hours and Numbered Sails. Finlay replied within a week with minor modifications prior to their submission into the competition. He adds a note of encouragement to Harvey, "So the question is, who will get the Third Prize (As we have won the First and Second)." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Postcard by Psychopainted. No.3., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-04899-4996
Scope and Contents

Protests the FRench testing of atomic weapons in the south Pacific. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Poster / Ulrichs, Timm., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-53042-74187
Scope and Contents

The card depicts a stylized image of the spaceship Apollo landing on the moon. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Printed Head, The: Picturepoems. No.12 / Gunter Brus., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-34536-36235
Scope and Contents

Brus was prominent among the Vienna Actionists until 1970 when he devoted himself to drawing, writing and picture-poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Private Tutor: Skylines/Sea-lanes. No.10/May / Stuart Mills., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-37546-39403
Scope and Contents

The image of the poem is done as a line drawing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Proem / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Costley, Ron., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-35417-37152
Scope and Contents

The pages depict four line drawings of a ship prow and a linocut listing Roman numerals from XIX to X. A card with the same title held by the Sackner Archive is a linocut taken from one of the pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Proem / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Costley, Ron., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-58402-10001619
Scope and Contents

The cover depicts a line drawing of the prow of a ship. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Proem / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Costley, Ron., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-35355-37089
Scope and Contents

The cover depicts a line drawing of the prow of a ship. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Project For A Monument To Saint-Just / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Sloan, Nicholas., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-11996-12219
Scope and Contents

Instructions are provided for cutting and folding to form a paper pyramid. The epithets applied to Saint-Just by a contemporary appear on the sculpture, viz., beautiful, fanatical, and dictatorial along with his birth and death dates, 1967-1794. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Projet pour un Parc Republicain / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-12505-12732
Scope and Contents

The print depicts a landscape viewed from above with a classical Greek temple and trees. The path in the center has the shape of an axe. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988