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Picture poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 230 Collections and/or Records:

The Badger Poets / Cohen, David ; Mason, Roger ; Phillips-Smith, Elizabeth ; Phillips-Smith, Tony ; Pickering, Frank., 1981

 Item — Box 396: [Barcode: 31858072461605]
Identifier: CC-17387-17752
Scope and Contents

Each poem is presented both conventionally and visually with calligraphic text on opposing pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

The First Battle of Little Sparta, February 4, 1983 (Flute, Begin with Me), 1984

 Item — Box 147: [Barcode: 31858072458007]
Identifier: CC-12418-12645
Scope and Contents

The medal depicts an automatic machine gun as a metaphor for a flute; commemorates first episode of an assult by the Strathclyde Region tax collectors on Finlay's home. The leaflet accompanyimg this medal commemorating the incident is a visual pun on Virgil's flute, with the vents in the barrel-sleeve as the finger-stops. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

The Harbour at Gravelines / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1978

 Item — Folder 36: [Barcode: 31858072459963]
Identifier: CC-12370-12596
Scope and Contents

The print depicts a blue pointillist image of the harbor. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

The Immaculate Conception, 1954

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-09836-10030
Scope and Contents

This depicts two nuns holding hands while lying in bed; It is collaged onto a page of Furnival's "Liber Amicorum 1964-1984," a book held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1954

The Little Seamstress / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Demarco, Richard., 1970

 Item — Folder 35: [Barcode: 31858072459948]
Identifier: CC-12389-12615
Scope and Contents

Depicts a sail boat with the tip of its mast in juxtaposition with the horizon like sewing the horizon as it sails. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

The Marble Arrow, 1984

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Finlay, Ian Hamilton: [Barcode: 31858072491461]
Identifier: CC-12567-12799
Scope and Contents

The card is shaped like an arrow and has been made from marbled paper, a pun on the poem printed along an inside fold, "The Marble Arrow Always Hits Its Mark!" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

The Nuclear Fan, 1984

 Item — Box 610: [Barcode: 31858072460862]
Identifier: CC-44062-46178
Scope and Contents

Each leaf of the fan depicts the same atomic explosion and a single word caption. The words form the following sentence, "This is only a test." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

The Plagiarist Codex: An Old Maya Information Hieroglyph, 1990

 Item — Box 316: [Barcode: 31858072490810]
Identifier: CC-26955-27429
Scope and Contents

This is a slightly larger version of the book published originally by Xexoxial Editions in 1987. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

The Poor Fisherman, 1987

 Item — Folder 61: [Barcode: 31858072537958]
Identifier: CC-12494-12721
Scope and Contents

The image in this poem has been modified from a figurative painting by Puvis de Chavnannes through addition of a French republican tricolor button to the mast of his boat. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

The River, 1990

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Depew, Wally: [Barcode: 31858072491388]
Identifier: CC-55171-9998965

The Shapes and S.P.A.C.I.N.G of the Letters, 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-08143-8304
Scope and Contents

This book consists of a collection of illustrated essays on the following topics, Short-Prose, Verbo-Visuals, Travel-Log, Agit-Prop, Colonial-English, Calendar-Art, Cut-Paste and Laughing-Stock. Includes a particularly good exposition of Picture or Emblem Poetry. Most of the writing is tongue-in-cheek. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

The Wakests, 1993

 Item — Box 305: [Barcode: 31858072460953]
Identifier: CC-37930-39810
Scope and Contents

The first five cards provide documentation of this project that deal with line drawings of "Wakest" creatures on the recto with a two word caption on the verso. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

The Worst Moment Is When You Realize That You Can't Change the Course of Art History, 2009

 Item — Box 327: [Barcode: 31858072490943]
Identifier: CC-49782-70836
Scope and Contents

The collaged card depicts a photograph of Vittore and an unknown man seated and reading books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009

There Are Holes, 2000

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Depew, Wally: [Barcode: 31858072491388]
Identifier: CC-55123-8929

Thermidor, 1994

 Item — Box 147: [Barcode: 31858072458007]
Identifier: CC-12767-13032
Scope and Contents

Stephan Bann provides an explanation of the poem in the accompanying leaflet as follows. Thermidor was the month in the French Revolutionary calendar when the summer heat was its most intense, and the grain at its ripest. It was also the month, in 1794, when Robespierre and his followers met their deaths at the guillotine. In the image of this poem, the abrupt cleavage of the word, THER MIDOR, and of the figured sheaf of flowers, suggest the termination of the revolution in its Jacobian sense. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Thornier / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Boulton, Janet., 1997

 Item — Folder 35: [Barcode: 31858072459948]
Identifier: CC-34974-36691
Scope and Contents

The print depicts a thorn with barbs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997