Picture poetry
Found in 230 Collections and/or Records:
The Badger Poets / Cohen, David ; Mason, Roger ; Phillips-Smith, Elizabeth ; Phillips-Smith, Tony ; Pickering, Frank., 1981
Each poem is presented both conventionally and visually with calligraphic text on opposing pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The First Battle of Little Sparta, February 4, 1983 (Flute, Begin with Me), 1984
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.
The Garden as a Parenthesis , 1972
The Harbour at Gravelines / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1978
The print depicts a blue pointillist image of the harbor. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Immaculate Conception, 1954
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.
The Little Seamstress / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Demarco, Richard., 1970
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.
The Marble Arrow, 1984
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.
The Nuclear Fan, 1984
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.
The Plagiarist Codex: An Old Maya Information Hieroglyph, 1990
This is a slightly larger version of the book published originally by Xexoxial Editions in 1987. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Plagiarist Codex: An Old Maya Information Hieroglyph, 1987
The Poor Fisherman, 1987
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.
The Puzzle, 1988
The River, 1990
The Shapes and S.P.A.C.I.N.G of the Letters, 1994
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.
[The twins...] , 1980
The Wakests, 1993
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.
The Worst Moment Is When You Realize That You Can't Change the Course of Art History, 2009
The collaged card depicts a photograph of Vittore and an unknown man seated and reading books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
There Are Holes, 2000
Thermidor, 1994
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.
Thornier / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Boulton, Janet., 1997
The print depicts a thorn with barbs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
