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Picture poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 230 Collections and/or Records:

Scottish Zulu , 1970

 Item — Folder 61: [Barcode: 31858072537958]
Identifier: CC-12438-12665
Scope and Contents

Depicts Scottish sailing ship with black sails. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Scythe/Lightening Flash , 1990

 Item — Folder 62: [Barcode: 31858072537966]
Identifier: CC-12503-12730
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1990

Sea Coast after Claude Lorraine / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1985

 Item — Folder 36: [Barcode: 31858072459963]
Identifier: CC-12571-12803
Scope and Contents

Depicts a seascape with inscribed flat stones (Liber Veritas) in the foreground -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Seashells, 1971

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Finlay, Ian Hamilton: [Barcode: 31858072491461]
Identifier: CC-11863-12084
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1971

Selected Poems: Beyond Even Faithful Legends, 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-22196-22618
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1980

Seventy Sixty Fifty Not Out! Well Played, Sir!, 1999

 Item — Folder 59: [Barcode: 31858072537933]
Identifier: CC-33470-35114
Scope and Contents

The print, done in commemoration of Jonathan Williams' 70th birthday, shows him playing cricket. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Sex Love, 1990

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Depew, Wally: [Barcode: 31858072491388]
Identifier: CC-55179-38965

Shaman, 1999

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: A-Ba: [Barcode: 31858072491164]
Identifier: CC-33567-35220

Six Proposals for the Improvement of Stockwood Park Nurseries in the Borough of Luton, 1986

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Finlay, Ian Hamilton: [Barcode: 31858072491461]
Identifier: CC-11753-11971
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1986

St. Swithin's Swivet / Furnival, John; Williams, Jonathan., 1997

 Item — Folder 37: [Barcode: 31858072459971]
Identifier: CC-29413-30778
Scope and Contents

The print depicts an image of a sheep and lamb. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Subject to a Complex Depression / Furnival, John., 1995

 Item — Folder 38: [Barcode: 31858072459989]
Identifier: CC-13190-13491
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1995

[Sundial], 1967

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Finlay, Ian Hamilton: [Barcode: 31858072491461]
Identifier: CC-12350-12576
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1967

Sundial Print: Umbra Solis / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Harvey, Michael., 1975

 Item — Folder 35: [Barcode: 31858072459948]
Identifier: CC-12399-12625
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1975

Temple, n, 1984

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Finlay, Ian Hamilton: [Barcode: 31858072491461]
Identifier: CC-12088-12312
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1984

Terror/Virtue, 1983

 Item — Box 184: [Barcode: 31858072459542]
Identifier: CC-12419-12646
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1983

That's Not Art That's Illustration, 1999

 Item — Folder 73: [Barcode: 31858072538089]
Identifier: CC-32247-33805
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1999