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Picture poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1790 Collections and/or Records:

das gepflugte Land - the fluted land / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Nash, John R.., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-35423-37158
Scope and Contents

There are two other cards by Finlay with the same title, held by the Sackner Archive. In this print, the image is a calligraphic rendering of the title by Nash. Finlay remarks, "A permissable (mis)translation expands the suggestiveness of the German and evokes a range of associations with classical antiquity." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Dating the Navy / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Ivancic, Nina., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-35400-37135
Scope and Contents

The poem reads "Dating the Navy -Val and the image is a red silhouette of a Japanese aircraft of WWII, the Aichi Navy Type Carrier Bomber." Val was an Allied code name for this airplane. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

de Man / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-13004-13296
Scope and Contents

The image on this card is a French rabbit hunt with people on horses acompanied with dogs and the name de Man inscribed on the body of the rabbit. de Man was the site of Finlay's ultimately rejected commission for the city of Paris. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

death the outcome, 2010

 Item — Box 337: [Barcode: 31858072491198]
Identifier: CC-51992-73094
Scope and Contents

McMurtagh resides in San Diego, California; presumably this collaboration took place through the mail. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Definitions Of Lawns (2) / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Harvey, Michael., 1974

 Item
Identifier: CC-11989-12212
Scope and Contents

This depicts a garden U-Boat conning tower sculpture (metaphor for silo?) and a cow separated from it by a moat. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Degas / Segay, Serge., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-61625-10004086
Scope and Contents

Taken from pete spence's Archive 1998. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Delight / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Hincks, Gary., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-35261-36995
Scope and Contents

The poem deals with opening the hold of a fishing boat and seeing that the nets are bulging with fish. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

delphei (230469) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-08737-8911
Scope and Contents

The typed image depicts three major clusters of red periods above a long diagonal red typed line made of slashes. The text at page bottom reads "ritual dionysian cycle c. 8th cent bc used in pythonian winter rites (cult-furrow o 'sulcus' restored)" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Der Tag / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Costley, Ron., 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-12519-12746
Scope and Contents

The caption "Der Tag" (the day) in old German letters appears under a drawing of a steamboat. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Dialogue / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-12120-12344
Scope and Contents

This is a polemic against Headley and Meulenkamp, the authors of "Follies: A National Trust Guide." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Die Zerstorung Dresdens und Ihre poetischen Folgen, 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-10580-10785
Scope and Contents

The theme deals with the destruction of Dresden by the Allies fire bombing during World War II. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Dirty Rains / Tot, Endre., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-42165-44169
Scope and Contents

Published on the occasion of Endre Tot's exhibition held at Galerie S:t Petri, Lund, Sweden, November, 1977. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Distributive entities / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Sackett C., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-35258-36992
Scope and Contents

The one-word poem, funnel, is printed in the center of each page on reading in one direction and the word, runnel, is printed in the center of each page reading in the opposite direction. Runnel means a small stream or brook. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996