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Picture poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1802 Collections and/or Records:

The Sacramento Proposal: Sculpture for the 1201 K Street Office Tower / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; McLeish, Neil., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-12552-12780
Scope and Contents

The sculpture utilizes the word "cloud" in five languages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

The Saga of Frankie & Johnny / Held, John Jr.., 1972

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Identifier: CC-09464-9652
Scope and Contents

John Held Jr., the illustrator of this book, was born in 1889. According to Nicholas Fox Weber, author of Patron Saints, Knopf, 1992, Held was a famous illustrator of the 20's (e.g. F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Tales of the Jazz Age," 1922 who lost his monies in the Stock Market Crash and fell upon hard times in the 30's. He did the costume and set designs for the first ballet by the American Ballet Company of New York with wholly American subject matter, "Alma Mater," performed in 1934. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

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 Sign of the Nudge / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Harvey, Michael., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-11954-12177
Scope and Contents

This is also designated Artist Cards No.25 in series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

The Spice Cupboard (1687) / Williams, Jonathan; Furnival, John., 1987

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Identifier: CC-32204-33758
Scope and Contents

This is designated Jargon Society Card No.21. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

The Stork / Smith, William Jay., 1954

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Identifier: CC-42603-44619
Scope and Contents

This poem pamphlet announces the birth of Gregory Jay Smith, son of William Jay Smith and his first wife, Barbara Howes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1954

The Tiredness part 1 / Roberts, M. Rees., 1971

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Identifier: CC-50776-71854
Scope and Contents Internet: The full name of the artist is Marcus Rees Roberts. Following his degree in English at Cambridge, Marcus Rees Roberts studied Film Theory at the Slade School of Fine Art, where he wrote his thesis on German Expressionist Cinema. He then completed a second post-graduate course in printmaking at the Slade. In 1977 he was awarded the Slade Prize and appointed teaching assistant in printmaking. In 1980 he moved to Scotland to lecture at Edinburgh College of Art. In 1982 he was appointed Visiting Professor at the University of Central Florida and in 1989 as Lecturer in charge of Printmaking at Edinburgh College of Art, a post he held until 1995, when he returned to live and work in London. Rees Roberts has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad; venues include the Portland Art Museum (International Print Exhibition), Oregon; University of Central Florida, Orlando; Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina; The Slade Gallery, London; The Strang Print Room at University...
Dates: 1971

The ursakrament and eschaton / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1960

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Identifier: CC-55315-9999064
Scope and Contents

Eschaton is consumation of the collective history of humankind and the urskrament is the German word for sacrament. The Catechism of the Catholic Church defines the sacraments as "efficacious signs of grace, instituted by Christ and entrusted to the Church, by which divine life is dispensed to us. The visible rites by which the sacraments are celebrated signify and make present the graces proper to each sacrament. They bear fruit in those who receive them with the required dispositions." The catechism included in the Anglican Book of Common Prayer defines a sacrament as "an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace given unto us, ordained by Christ himself, as a means whereby we receive the same, and a pledge to assure us thereof." In the image the subject is sitting on a chair. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1960

The Wakests / Was, Elizabeth; And M., 1993

 Item
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 Wanderings of Ulysses / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Tammes, Diane., 1997

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Identifier: CC-35353-37087
Scope and Contents

The black and white photograph on the cover depicts grazing sheep with a portion of a black sail on the horizon. The poem reads, "He comes to Little Sparta." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

The Wartime Garden / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Costley, Ron., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-10932-11144
Scope and Contents

There is no reference made to this book in the various Finlay bibliographies but the the same images printed on identical paper are bound into the exhibition catalog, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Serpentine Gallery, London, 1977, a book also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

The Wartime Garden / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Costley, Ron., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-12559-12791
Scope and Contents

This depicts 10 line drawn, picture poems printed in red and black, one to a page that involve a war theme. A complete reprinting of this book appeared as a section of the catalog for Finlay's exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery (1977). Unable to locate an entry for this book, which was printed by the Stellar Press, in the Finlay bibliographies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975