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Picture poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1802 Collections and/or Records:

Village / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-35241-36975
Scope and Contents

The image depicts a black and white drawing of a village scene by the German Fauve painter, Gabriele Munter and the poem with a declaration of the color of the houses along with a pun. The poem reads, red houses - yellow houses - blue houses - greenhouses. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Visitor / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-35287-37021
Scope and Contents

The image on the cover is a row boat. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Visual Voices Unpublished; Poem Stripped Bare of Print Trappings Collapses into Dissolute Prose; page 11 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-57242-10000564
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon Praed, "Sonnet to R.C. Hillyard, October 15, 1836" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices Unpublished; Poem with Centuries-Old Major Fault Revealed; page 5 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-57241-10000563
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon Fulke Greville, from Caelica (xiv) -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices Unpublished; Poem with Vowel Music (Strung Too Tight) Sprung; page 32 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-57254-10000576
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon Tennyson, "To a Lady Sleeping" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices Unpublished; The Poem Winks at the Reader; pages 4 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-57240-10000562
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon Suckling, "Upon Christman Eve" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Voices;The Traditional poem as Postmodern Transformer; pages 106--107 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-56983-10000344
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon John Lydgate(1370-1451?), from The Dance of the Death. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Vittore Baroni playing the part of Picasso Gaglione / Baroni, Vittore., 2011

 Item
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

Voysey Stile / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Stewart, Mark., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-10987-11200
Scope and Contents

The word 'stile' in the caption refers to a framing panel design for furniture. Voysey was an architect whose work Finlay disliked. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Waldwachsende Blumen auf den Ehrentempeln Konigsplatz Munchen / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Simig, Pia Maria ; Eyres P., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-29709-31084
Scope and Contents

The book begins with a chronology listing Hitler's rise to power and the relation of the building in Munich called Ehrentempel. The end papers consist of a photograph of the building. The right sided pages depict drawings of wild flowers, the left sided the names of the flowers. The pamphlet, written by Patrick Eyres in German, is a critical text about Finlay's work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Wall Stret Wacht Af / Clavin, Hans., 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-17115-17473
Scope and Contents

The same photographic image of a Vietnamese(?) man and woman viewing the corpses of two others lying in a pit are repeated on each page with a different caption. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Warmth in the Human Winter, 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-04248-4327
Scope and Contents

Charles Maden selected the poems and designed this book and Tye Bernick painted the covers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991