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Picture poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1790 Collections and/or Records:

Calendar / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Clark, Laurie., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-12005-12228
Scope and Contents

The card depicts a grid for the 12 months in which each panel depicts an activity in Finlay's garden. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Capital, n. A republican crown / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Burckhardt, Lucius., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-13005-13297
Scope and Contents

The image is a hat in the style worn during the French revolution placed on top of a basket decorated with flowers. Finlay captions the image with a quote from Gerd Neumann's book, "Callimachus" (1981). "Seen in this way, the lost CAPITAL, is an envoy; a parody of the now solely burlesque treatment of history in this post-modernism and, as a consequence, a double negation as well, yet without the desirable positive change in values, at least from the perspective of making history." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Card 45 from One Dozen Rain Postcards 1971-1973 / Tot, Endre; Albrecht d., 1971 - 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-49527-70573
Scope and Contents

Also designated reflection press 26 - card 45. Albrecht d was the editor. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971 - 1973

Card to Patricia Collins / Lumb, Michael., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-58368-10001584
Scope and Contents

Omage is a deceased student of Lumb. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Carnation / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-12309-12534
Scope and Contents

The print consists of a text from R.R. Palmer "Twelve Who Ruled" and relates the appearance of Saint-Just who when led to the guillotine wore a carnation in his buttonhole. The print and two red loose sheets are cut in two parts in the shape of the guillotine, to symbolize the execution, the red carnation, and his blood. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Cascade / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Reeve, Antonia., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-11076-11291
Scope and Contents

The photograph is an image of the upper pool at Little Sparta. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Catches / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Sandeman, Margot., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-12328-12554
Scope and Contents

The text reads, "A big catch is a wee consolation. (After Paul Klee) -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Chain / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-35255-36989
Scope and Contents

The poem prints the word, "daisy," in varied typefaces seven times in a vertical row. Daisy chain is a means for hooking up multiple peripherals to a personal computer. The different typefaces constitute a simile for the different peripherals. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Chanson d'Automne / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-12565-12797
Scope and Contents

The text on one sheet reads "glades of sunlight" and is printed on warm, golden paper. The second sheet reads "forests of cloud" and is printed on purple earthy paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Charm, n / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Clark, Laurie., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-12084-12308
Scope and Contents

The card depicts a line drawing of a flower bouquet and a caption, Charm, n., a something pleasing in a person or thing; it came in with the Revolution and went out with the war. Revolution refers to the French Revolution in this poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984