Picture poetry
Found in 230 Collections and/or Records:
Berlin Years, 2006
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.
Bicentenary Tricolour , 1989
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.
Blue Lemon, 1998
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.
Bogendruck: Die Cigarette. No.6/May, 1972
Bordeaux Vineyard: Chateau d'Issan / Furnival, John., 1986
In the Locative and Vocative Case. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Bordeaux Vineyard: Chateau Latour / Furnival, John., 1986
In The Locative and Vocative Case. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Bordeaux Vineyard: Chateau Malescot St. Exupery / Furnival, John., 1986
Breakfast, 1988
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.
Bright Patches / Furnival, John., 1994
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.
Cello-ist, 1964
Cenere d'Argento, 1989
Almost all images incorporate biological specimens of insects, fish skeletons, plants etc. as well as mathematical formulae. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Chocolate Cake, 1979
Citron Bleu / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1994
Image was taken from a detail of a painting by William Gillies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Classical/Neoclassical / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1987
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.
Claude Has Come into the Garden, 1974
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.
Collection OUt: Poure Henri Chopin. No.000 , 1973
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.
Come Alive! The Spirited Art of Sister Corita by Julie Ault, 2006
coxbox-2 (memorial to ken cox) (160469) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1969
Cygnet, 1997
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.
Dadazine: Obscene Jesters. Special [2], 1979
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.
