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Picture poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 230 Collections and/or Records:

Berlin Years, 2006

 Item
Identifier: CC-46976-49714
Scope and Contents

This work is stored with McSweeney's periodicals. The prints depict surrealistic images. The book is a collection of facsimile pages from Dzama's sketch book; the book's title is Dracula. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

Bicentenary Tricolour , 1989

 Item — Folder 62: [Barcode: 31858072537966]
Identifier: CC-10992-11206
Scope and Contents

The poem on the French tricolor flag reads, "Liberty for Some; Equality for Some; Fraternity for Some" rather than "for All." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Blue Lemon, 1998

 Item — Box 301: [Barcode: 31858072460912]
Identifier: CC-35431-37166
Scope and Contents

This is a commercial Swiss match box that advertises a night club, 'Hot Lemon.' Finlay has printed in the same typography on the opposite side, 'Blue Lemon.' The poem that substitutes for the address site of "Hot Lemon" reads, Moray Firth Seine Netter - Fruition - Port Letters / Fishing Nos. INS265. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Bordeaux Vineyard: Chateau d'Issan / Furnival, John., 1986

 Item — Folder 38: [Barcode: 31858072459989]
Identifier: CC-13178-13479
Scope and Contents

In the Locative and Vocative Case. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Bordeaux Vineyard: Chateau Latour / Furnival, John., 1986

 Item — Folder 38: [Barcode: 31858072459989]
Identifier: CC-13176-13477
Scope and Contents

In The Locative and Vocative Case. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Breakfast, 1988

 Item — Folder 52: [Barcode: 31858072537867]
Identifier: CC-02322-2362
Scope and Contents

This poem describes a cold winter's day from the vantage point of a restaurant opened for breakfast using as a metaphor "you can see people's breath as they come in the door." The text is arranged in a spiral adjacent to a coffee cup to simulate steaming coffee. The theme of the poem relates to the friendliness which occurs when a group of people come together in a shelter for protection from the cold weather. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Bright Patches / Furnival, John., 1994

 Item — Folder 38: [Barcode: 31858072459989]
Identifier: CC-13169-13470
Scope and Contents

This is one of a series of 11 prints done in collaboration with Jonathan Williams that deal with the weather in Cumbria. This depicts a gloomy landscape from a window vantage showing grazing sheep. There are bright patches of red on backs of the Ewes indicating their owner as well as blue color on their backs. The ram's feet is placed into blue dye before they are put into the field with the Ewes so that farmers can tell when Ewes were serviced. In The Locative and Vocative Case. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Cenere d'Argento, 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-10658-10867
Scope and Contents

Almost all images incorporate biological specimens of insects, fish skeletons, plants etc. as well as mathematical formulae. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Citron Bleu / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1994

 Item — Folder 36: [Barcode: 31858072459963]
Identifier: CC-12517-12744
Scope and Contents

Image was taken from a detail of a painting by William Gillies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Classical/Neoclassical / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1987

 Item — Folder 35: [Barcode: 31858072459948]
Identifier: CC-12361-12587
Scope and Contents

The classical image is of a six layer cake; the image of neoclassical is of six stacked drums. In each picture, the sizes of each layer become progressively smaller from botton to top. The cake probably refers to Marie Antoinette's pre-revolutionary statement, "Let Them Eat Cake!" and the drums refer to the French revolution. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Claude Has Come into the Garden, 1974

 Item — Folder 58: [Barcode: 31858072537925]
Identifier: CC-13292-13593
Scope and Contents

Depicts a drawing of Claude Debussy standing at the front of a labyrinth, with architectural renderings at the left, parts of Debussy's music in the clouds, and a bat in storm clouds at the top right. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Collection OUt: Poure Henri Chopin. No.000 , 1973

 Item — Folder 77: [Barcode: 31858072538360]
Identifier: CC-35920-37684
Scope and Contents

The print depicts a line drawing of a self-portrait head. A letter to Chopin from Janco is reproduced below it in white ink on a gray background. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Come Alive! The Spirited Art of Sister Corita by Julie Ault, 2006

 Item
Identifier: CC-47364-50108
Scope and Contents Amazon.com: "At 18, Corita Kent (1918-1986) entered the Roman Catholic order of Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Los Angeles, where she taught art and eventually ran the art department. After more than 30 years, at the end of the 1960s, she left the order to devote herself to making her own work. Over a 35-year career she made watercolors, posters, books and banners--and most of all, serigraphs--in an accessible and dynamic style that appropriated techniques from advertising, consumerism and graffiti. The earliest of it, which she began showing in 1951, borrowed phrases and depicted images from the Bible; by the 1960s, she was using song lyrics and publicity slogans as raw material. Eschewing convention, she produced cheap, readily available multiples, including a postage stamp. Her work was popular but largely neglected by the art establishment--though it was always embraced by such design luminaries as Charles and Ray Eames, Buckminster Fuller and Saul Bass. More...
Dates: 2006

Cygnet, 1997

 Item — Box 301: [Barcode: 31858072460912]
Identifier: CC-35384-37119
Scope and Contents

The inside of a Swan Vestas match box was modified to display an image of a sailboat on folded papercard. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Dadazine: Obscene Jesters. Special [2], 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-30992-32451
Scope and Contents

This periodical was edited by Bill Gaglione. The inside back cover states, "This is a special rubber stamp art issue of Dad(d)azine." Each page depicts a rubberstamped image of a person with an obscene gesture captioned with the country of origin. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979