Picture poetry
Found in 230 Collections and/or Records:
Scottish Zulu , 1970
Depicts Scottish sailing ship with black sails. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Scythe/Lightening Flash , 1990
Depicts image of scythes whose blades becomes transformed into a lightening flash, a metaphor for the French revolution. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Sea Coast after Claude Lorraine / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1985
Depicts a seascape with inscribed flat stones (Liber Veritas) in the foreground -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Seashells, 1971
The essay written by Stephen Bann on the back inside folder explains the metaphor of grouping designs of hulls of sailing ships like sea shells in a display case. Proctor is a ship designer and Costley the artist who made this print. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Selected Poems: Beyond Even Faithful Legends, 1980
Cover painting by bissett. Len Early wrote the introduction to this selection of bissett's poems from 1962-1976. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
[Serpent Orchids] , 1990
Seventy Sixty Fifty Not Out! Well Played, Sir!, 1999
The print, done in commemoration of Jonathan Williams' 70th birthday, shows him playing cricket. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Sex Love, 1990
Shaman, 1999
Six Proposals for the Improvement of Stockwood Park Nurseries in the Borough of Luton, 1986
Five prints were adapted by Hinks from drawings by Claude Lorrain (1640, 1642, 1643, 1649). The texts of the tree plaques for this proposal were taken from classical sources in Latin and Greek literature. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
St. Swithin's Swivet / Furnival, John; Williams, Jonathan., 1997
The print depicts an image of a sheep and lamb. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
[Stapled booklet], 1988
Subject to a Complex Depression / Furnival, John., 1995
Depicts a sheep peering through a window with the fields in the background; according to a letter from Furnival, this print is a companion to Bright Patches. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Summary Dissolution, 1988
[Sundial], 1967
This photograph depicts a sundial sculpture, "The Four, Seas, -Ons In, Sail. A sail is placed in the center to deflect the sun and cast a shadow. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Sundial Print: Umbra Solis / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Harvey, Michael., 1975
The Sackner Archive also holds the card and the drawing with the same title. This work is also depicted in Bulletin of the National Galleries of Scotland No.3, a pamphlet periodical held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Temple, n, 1984
Temple denotes the exhibition space at Finlay's residence. The caption under an image of a Greek temple includes a definition, a quote from The Metamorphosis of Ovid, and the storming of Finlay's Temple by the Strathclyde region tax collectors who launched a surprise attack on Budget day, March 15, and successfully looted the garden TEMPLE. The definition is "a marbled edifice, a veined edifice; the seat or summit of reason." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Terror/Virtue, 1983
The leaflet provides an explanation for the image on the medal. Virtue is signified by two classical columns and terror by the two posts of the Guillotine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
[Th Dead Roach], 1987
That's Not Art That's Illustration, 1999
The print depicts a human-like dog with a handwritten text that decries the designation "artist" to many contemporaries. The poem concludes, "The only people left who seem to be artists are illustrators. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
