Furnival, John, 1933-2020
Dates
- Existence: 1933-05-29-
Found in 86 Collections and/or Records:
Nailsworth Series: Z is for Zany... , 1995
Stored in The Locative and Vocative Case. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Planet Saturn / Furnival, John., 1968
This black and white print has mathematical symbols, magic squares and words in which one or more of the stylized letters are printed in reverse, upside down. The central image depicts a 4 x 4 grid of numbers, letters and symbols. This is surrounded by a rectangular border of words, suggestive of Saturn's ring (?) that include "Yahweh, Demon, Sazel, Aziel, Spirit, Saturn, Planet." The words "Sazel and Aziel" are not listed in the dictionary. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Poem/Print No.11 (trial version) / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Furnival, John., 1969
This depicts an image of Xmas Star, a fishing boat, with a listing of its Port Letters, Fishing Numbers, Radio Call Sign, Net Tonnage, and Gross Tonnage. With the exception of the name Xmas Star printed in red, the remainder of the image is printed in black. In this unique version, the image is printed on much heavier stock paper than the original print. The inscription on verso reads, reprint from the Wild Hawthorn Press April 1969. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Poem/Print No.11 [Xmas Star] / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Furnival, John., 1969
This is an image of Xmas Star, a fishing boat, with a listing of its Port Letters, Fishing Numbers, Radio Call Sign, Net Tonnage, and Gross Tonnage. With the exception of the name Xnas Star printed in red, the remainder of the image is printed in black. Printed at the lower right is "Wild Hawthorne Press April 1969. The Sackner Archive holds a smaller version of this print. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Polar Bear Poster Poem, 1965
In this poem, Furnival plays with permutations of bear, the personal pronouns, ours & nous (we in English from the French), and son using his distinctive calligraphic printed letterform style. This print is depicted in Furnival's "Lost For Words" (2011) page 56. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Poor Old Tired Horse, No. 19: io and the ox-eye daisy, 1967
Quack Cures Pond / Furnival, John., 1998
This is a reprinting of a print from the portfolio, "Evelines, Headlines," done in collaboration with Furnival's first group of students and Ian Hamilton Finlay. According to Furnival, the portfolio sprang from a drawing that his daughter did of The Flying Scotsman - literally a Scotsman in a kilt with angel's wings. With respect to this poem, it might be a take-off on Basho's famous poem, Frog Pond Plop. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Real I Sing, 1974
A large grainy photographic portrait of Eric Satie is the center image with the words "Real I" drawn in three dimensions at the top and "Sing" at the bottom. The title can also be pronounced "realizing." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Regional News, 1978
The drawing is dominated by the listing of four silkscreened words listed from top to bottom, viz., Norther, Easter, Wester and Souther. Wide colored lines in a meandering fashion like unwound, tangled tape from a casette cross, encircle and go under the four directional words. The caption below these words reads, Regional News: one line the shortest distance between two points bing the prettiest. On the right side, Furnival draws in graphite, Paris c'est beauborg n'est pastiche. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Revue OU, cinquième saison, No. 30/31, 1967
[Saturn J Mar] / Furnival, John., 1968
The print on translucent paper lists a circular stream of words, printed in different colors, that relate to celestial bodies. These float over the second print that depicts a large silver globe with latitude and longitude lines. Disintegrating silver capital "V's and other letterforms on the outer border of the globe provide an visual effect that it is spinning. The printing on this work is unusually sophisticated and might have been done in collaboration with A. Doyle Moore, a master printer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Seventy Seventies for Eugen Gomringer / Furnival, John., 1993
Depicts the number "70" seventy times with different typefaces and sizes and overlays as homage to Gomringer's 70th birthday. In The Locative and Vocative Case. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Seventy Sixty Fifty Not Out! Well Played, Sir!, 1999
The print, done in commemoration of Jonathan Williams' 70th birthday, shows him playing cricket. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Sixty Sixties for Tom / Furnival, John; Phillips T., 1997
Image consists of the sixty red number '60's' with varied dimensions placed in a vertical rectangular space with some of the numbers overlapping. It was done n celebration of Tom Phillips' 60th birthday. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
St. Swithin's Swivet / Furnival, John; Williams, Jonathan., 1997
The print depicts an image of a sheep and lamb. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Subject to a Complex Depression / Furnival, John., 1995
Depicts a sheep peering through a window with the fields in the background; according to a letter from Furnival, this print is a companion to Bright Patches. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Chase / Furnival, John., 1997
Each of the 21 poems in this print have a repetition of a word or beginning letter of a word in each of their lines, e.g., The Evening Star - The Example, The Excuse; The Trick, The Truth. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Corridors of Flower-Power, 1969
Depicts three visual poetic word columns. The Archive also holds this print backed on museum board. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
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- Text over text 4
- Calligraphic text 3
- Labyrinth 3
- Aphorism 2
- Colored text 2
- Documentation 2
- Found poetry 2
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- Architecture 1
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- Illustrated book (limited edition) 1
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- Typewriter poetry 1
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