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Picture poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 212 Collections and/or Records:

53 Vicarage Grove: The Face Behind the Aspidistra, 1983

 Item — Folder 83: [Barcode: 31858072538402]
Identifier: CC-54455-52472
Scope and Contents

The image depicts a self-portrait of Phillips. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

A Bouquet for Bill [Segal], 1994

 Item — Box 615: [Barcode: 31858073143871]
Identifier: CC-02809-2852
Scope and Contents

First draft of poem written on the occasion of Smith's friend, Bill Segal's 90th birthday. Segal is married to Marielle Buscon, the book artist. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

A Bouquet for Bill [Segal] [copy], 1994

 Item — Box 615: [Barcode: 31858073143871]
Identifier: CC-02810-2853
Scope and Contents

Final version of poem; the first draft is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

A Formal Pool for Stockwood Park, Luton , 1992

 Item — Folder 62: [Barcode: 31858072537966]
Identifier: CC-12334-12560
Scope and Contents

The inscription around the pool is taken from the "Poem on Nature" by Empedokles, the Presocriatic philosopher. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

A Proposal for the Grounds of the Serpentine Gallery, 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-35284-37018
Scope and Contents

This book and the commission to Finlay were dedicated to Diana, Princess of Wales by the Board of Trustees and Staff of the Serpentine Gallery. The first fold-out page consists of the architectural layout and the second a print enumerating trees in the area arranged as a mandala dedicated to Diana in its center. The commission itself consisted of poetic engravings for eight benches and a tree-plaque placed in the meadow around the Sepentine. The captions on these objects are brief sentences adapted from writings, rendered in Latin and English, on Arcadia by Virgil. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

A Proposal for The Robert Louis Stevenson Club , 1987

 Item — Folder 61: [Barcode: 31858072537958]
Identifier: CC-12489-12716
Scope and Contents

The poem to be inscribed as "A Man of Letters R.L.S." on a formal stone with irregular edges is inscribed with a 'one-word poem' and set in the grass within a small grove of birch trees" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

A Remembrance of R.L.S. / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary; McIntosh C; Kurs K., 1987

 Item — Folder 36: [Barcode: 31858072459963]
Identifier: CC-12487-12714
Scope and Contents

This memorial to Robert Louis Stevenson takes the form of a sacred grove bounded by an ashlar wall on a half circle and by five silver birch trees (Betula pendula) across the diameter. At the foot of the tree trunk is a stone tree column base inscribed with R.L.S. and Stevenson's dates beneath (1850-1894). The site is a Stevenson sanctuary, an area for reflection that is half private and enclosed and half open to the world, just as are Stevenson's writings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

A Rock Rose / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Demarco, Richard., 1971

 Item — Folder 36: [Barcode: 31858072459963]
Identifier: CC-12871-13161
Scope and Contents

The print depicts a sailboat with yellow sails (rose) passing rocky shoals (rock). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

A Tea Party, 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-10357-10560
Scope and Contents

This is a suite of prints assembled from single prints that numbered from 34 to 50 copies that dealt with the theme of tea. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

AEIOU Blue & Gloire de Marengo, 1976

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Finlay, Ian Hamilton: [Barcode: 31858072491461]
Identifier: CC-12104-12328
Scope and Contents

These preparatory drawings were intended for glass water-floating sculptures. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Agentzia Blatt: To Be A BEEEEEEEE, No. 4, 1971

 Item — Folder 10: [Barcode: 31858069877912]
Identifier: CC-23517-23962
Scope and Contents

The image is a large "bee" with a caption from the title below it. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

[Alec Sensed...] , 1984

 Item — Box 330: [Barcode: 31858072490968]
Identifier: CC-52452-73578
Scope and Contents

This card is part of the Bug House Archives. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

[Although the Meteorological] / Furnival, John., 1997

 Item — Folder 38: [Barcode: 31858072459989]
Identifier: CC-28539-29821
Scope and Contents

A drawing of four windows in a partially drawn bolted door. The graphite pencil is worked onto the surface of the paper so that the glass panes have a silvery reflection. The complete text printed at the top of the drawing reads, " Although the Meteorological Office has not yet released the forecast for September, it is not expected to be a cheerful one. " Part of a series of eight prints in collaboration with Jonathan Williams, "St Swithin's Swivet." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997