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Picture poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 140 Collections and/or Records:

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

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

Topiary Aircraft Carrier , 1972

 Item — Folder 61: [Barcode: 31858072537958]
Identifier: CC-12439-12666
Scope and Contents

Depicts a silhouette of an aircraft carrier as a topiary object. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Tu Voudrais la Grandeur, 1982

 Item — Folder 13: [Barcode: 31858069877920]
Identifier: CC-25369-25826

Un Noyer peut en cacher un autre! / Furnival, John., 1997

 Item — Folder 38: [Barcode: 31858072459989]
Identifier: CC-30429-31849
Scope and Contents

The print depicts a drawing of a tree barren of leaves with a single bird's nest, presumably in the Furnival's house in southern France. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Un 'Pop Art' Postcard, No. 5: you Murderers with your indifference [letter to Will Inman], 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-01056-1082
Scope and Contents

Printed by d.a. levy. This card has a message from levy to Will Inman on the verso and is described as a citation under d.a. levy. Stored in d.a. levy binder. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.


levy acknowleges receiving kauri (a periodical) from Inman and mentions some poets living in Cleveland. The message is typed on the verso of an Un 'Pop Art' Postcard by d.a. levy "you Murders with your indifference." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Un 'Pop Art' Postcard, no. 6: Stealing [letter to Will Inman], 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-01055-1081
Scope and Contents

Printed by d.a. levy. The message on the verso of this card by levy to Will Inman is described in the citation under levy. Stored with Silver Cesspool. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Unwrapping Spheres of Clouds & Skulls, 1994

 Item — Box 333: [Barcode: 31858072491024]
Identifier: CC-30678-32120
Scope and Contents

Surrealistic collages and line drawings are depicted on each page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Unwrapping Spheres of Clouds & Skulls, 1994

 Item — Box 333: [Barcode: 31858072491024]
Identifier: CC-30898-32352
Scope and Contents

Surrealistic collages and line drawings are depicted on each page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Ventose , 1991

 Item — Folder 62: [Barcode: 31858072537966]
Identifier: CC-12511-12738
Scope and Contents

Depicts a shovel labeled Ventose on its blade with a landscape in the background. The Finlay bibliographies differ as to its tirage 250 or 75 but it is more likely 250. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Vittore Baroni playing the part of Picasso Gaglione , 2011

 Item — Box 324: [Barcode: 31858072490901]
Identifier: CC-52111-73229
Scope and Contents

These stamps depict Baroni in poses that are captioned by a brief phrase. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011

Vocabulaire: Dentelle, 1989

 Item — Folder 57: [Barcode: 31858072537917]
Identifier: CC-14561-14872
Scope and Contents

The work is rubberstamped with the phrase "dentelle pulmonaire," signifying the lace-like appearance of the lungs as depicted in this drawing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

withapile, 2010

 Item — Box 337: [Barcode: 31858072491198]
Identifier: CC-51987-73089
Scope and Contents

McMurtagh resides in San Diego, California; presumably this collaboration took place through the mail. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Words and Pictures, No. 0: Pilot Issue, 1994

 Item — Box 242: [Barcode: 31858072460383]
Identifier: CC-00657-673
Scope and Contents

Contributors to this periodical are British art students or recent graduates mainly of Goldsmith's College. This was also designated the Pilot issue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Works In Europe 1972-1995, 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-13126-13423
Scope and Contents

This publication which was edited by Zdenek Felix and Pia Simig was published on the occasion of Finlay's exhibition entitled Works - Pure and Political at Diechtorhallen, Hamburg Germany in 1995. Includes photographs b&w of Finlay's sculptural works, documentation on their significance, and a listing of his collaborators. Archival material forming the basis for several of these works is held by the Sackner Archive, e.g., Max Plank Institute, Stuttgart (1972). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

[Young Arthur's...] , 1984

 Item — Box 330: [Barcode: 31858072490968]
Identifier: CC-52453-73579
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1984