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Picture poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1790 Collections and/or Records:

Bilder Kalender"69: im juli, im juli, reiss sie welter, aber wie?. No.7/Jul / Arno Waldschmidt., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-53804-642862
Scope and Contents

The print depicts fragments of body parts from a grotesque figure with a caption at the bottom of the image in large letters 'wums.' Could not find a translation into English for this word. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Bilder Kalender"69: im juni, im juni reift die schone anarchie. No.6/Jun / Johannes Vennekamp., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-53803-642861
Scope and Contents

The print depicts fragments of body parts from a grotesque figure with a caption at the bottom of the image in large letters 'wums.' Could not find a translation into English for this word. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Bilder Kalender"69: im mai, im mai, blebt es auch dabei.. No.5/May / Arno Waldschmidt., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-53802-642860
Scope and Contents

This print depicts a grotesque creature. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Bilder Kalender"69: im oktober? im october?. No.10/Oct / Uwe Bremer., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-53807-642865
Scope and Contents

This print depicts two menacing standing figures with words printed over their stylized open mouths. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Bilder Kalender"69: im september, im september denke noch nicht an november. No.9/Sep / Arno Waldschmidt., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-53806-642864
Scope and Contents

This is the same print with the same calendar as the 1968 version -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Birch-bark/birch-barque / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Tammes, Diane., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-11943-12166
Scope and Contents

The photograph on this card was made by Diane Tammes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Birch Dowels / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Tammes, Diane., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-35192-36926
Scope and Contents

The image of this card is a black and white photograph of two toy sail boats on a pond; the caption emphasizes their main masts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Birdsong / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Bevis J., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-35351-37085
Scope and Contents

Each card is printed on different colored stock with the same aphorism, All art constantly aspires towards the condition of birdsong (recto) in a variety of colours (verso). This is a quote from John Bevis. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Black Like Me, 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-33361-35000
Scope and Contents

This work is based upon a poem by Langston Hughes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Blue Flower / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Wieg, Cornelia., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-34975-36692
Scope and Contents

The print depicts stems with leaves on a blue background of water(?). The significance of this image is not readily discerned. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Blue Flower / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Wieg, Cornelia., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-35196-36930
Scope and Contents

The card depicts stems with leaves on a blue background of water(?). The significance of this image is not readily discerned. The Sackner Archive also holds a print of this work published by Penisula. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Blue Lemon, 1998

 Item — Box 301: [Barcode: 31858072460912]
Identifier: CC-35431-37166
Scope and Contents

This is a commercial Swiss match box that advertises a night club, 'Hot Lemon.' Finlay has printed in the same typography on the opposite side, 'Blue Lemon.' The poem that substitutes for the address site of "Hot Lemon" reads, Moray Firth Seine Netter - Fruition - Port Letters / Fishing Nos. INS265. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Bluebell* / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-43163-45219
Scope and Contents

The image on the cover is a stylized, blue warship in side silhouette. The back cover reads *Flower class corvette. July 1940. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Bluewater's Bark / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Costley, Ron., 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-10811-11021
Scope and Contents

The card mentions that the poem was part of the series 'Epicurus at Chatou.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Blue/Water's/Bark / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Tammes, Diane., 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-11973-12196
Scope and Contents

[6] pages (single sheet, folded twice to make six pages, printed on four pages), illustrated (reproducing a photograph by Diane Tammes). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972