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Picture poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1790 Collections and/or Records:

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

 Item
Identifier: CC-12010-12233
Scope and Contents

The card depicts a line drawing of a beach, a boat on the sand and a church. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Echoes series: untitled unfolder / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-35263-36997
Scope and Contents

The poem describes a sail boat. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

EDP.ARTE / Hatherly A ; Olaio A., 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-38718-40628
Scope and Contents

This was the second competitive exhibition for painting and drawing for showing the works by Portuguese artists sponsored by EDP- Electricidade de Portugal. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Egg Series: Curate's Egg, Imperially Hatched, In Parts / Furnival, John., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-13276-13577
Scope and Contents

Curate is a British term for the assistant to a vicar of the Church of England. The drawing consists of hatched fragments of an egg shell with a lower case letter on each fragment that together spell "eggshellent." Here Furnival appears to be poking fun at the British religious institution. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Egg Series: Egg Legs It Right / Furnival, John., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-13271-13572
Scope and Contents

Half of an egg shell is depicted on the right side; the caption in bold cursive text is placed in the lower center of the drawing. The word "legs" references the shape on the left that also resembles a knee. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Egg Series: Eggs Sit Left / Furnival, John., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-13272-13573
Scope and Contents

Viewed from above, the two parts of the egg shell in this drawing might be interpreted as the thigh meeting the knee. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Egg Series: Forty-nine Ways of Hatching a Cosmic Egg, 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-13286-13587
Scope and Contents

Consists of drawings of the same egg shell in a grid seven by seven. Each egg is formed with "hatched" lines done in a different way, e.g., horizontal, vertical, horizontal slanted, combination of slanted horizontal over slanted vertical, etc. The method of drawing egg shells with hatchings accounts for the title. These hatching styles are reminiscent of the wall drawings by Sol LeWitt.drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Egg Series: Imperial Disinteggration (for Gibbon) / Furnival, John., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-13280-13581
Scope and Contents

Both the caption and the egg shell have been fragmented in this drawing. Gibbon refers to the British historian, Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) who wrote "The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire." Furnival's drawing is a metaphor for this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Egg Series: Some Eggcentric Circles / Furnival, John., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-13277-13578
Scope and Contents

The shape of an egg shell is formed by five eccentric egg shells with different hatched markings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Egg Series: The Great British Egg Rise (1977) / Furnival, John., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-13274-13575
Scope and Contents

The drawing depicts an image of an egg shell with radiating bands as a spoof on the Japanese flag icon of the Rising Sun. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Egg Series: Yink Yolk / Furnival, John., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-13275-13576
Scope and Contents

Image and caption are a word play on Ying/Yang. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Ein Projekt fur das Bankhaus Schroeder Munchmeyer & Co / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Bann, Stephen ; Simig, Pia Maria ; Sloan, Nicolas ; Sterling, Annet., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-12938-13230
Scope and Contents

This is an extensive architectural project for a German bank that was planned from the onset of construction. It consisted of six carved, lettered stone sculptures for the facade, poetic wall paintings, poems on glass doors, and a floor poem. The concrete and picture poems were modified from earlier published versions, e.g., wave/rock, star, evening will come, sackcloth n., wild flower n. Bann wrote a critical analysis, Simig helped in production, & Sloan provided the stone carvings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Elegy / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-12970-13262
Scope and Contents

The image is a sailing ship with its bow pointed in a direction toward the rear of the plane. The poem lists names of Scottish persons whom Finlay knew that presumably recently died. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Elegy / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-35456-37192
Scope and Contents

The image on the cover of the card is a tire hanging on a portion of rope, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Elegy for Whimbrel and Petrel: petrol / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Gardner, Ian., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-13340-13641
Scope and Contents

The image in shades of brown-grays, tipped to the inside of the card, depicts a sailing ship with hoists resembling bird beaks. The foreground shows the sea with smudges resembling an oil slick. In the background is a shore line. No birds appear in t perhaps because petrol leaks from an oil tanker have contaminated their feeding environment. Whimbrel and Petrel are sea shore birds which might be rendered extinct because of lack of attention to oil spills - hence the use of "Elegy" in the title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Elements of miniaturisation / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Lassus B., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-35212-36946
Scope and Contents

The image on this card is a color photograph of a grave marker sculpture in Finlay's garden with nearby elf dolls. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Embassy Visit / Arkady of Toast; Olbrich JO., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-30147-31546
Scope and Contents

The stamps depict color photograph portraits of Jurgen Olbrich and other performers with the caption No Tour 1997. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997