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Picture poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1790 Collections and/or Records:

Flowers: Fill in the Flowers with Colours / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Downie, Jim; Clark TA; Clark L., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-10972-11184
Scope and Contents

This poem was composed after a work by Tom and Laurie Clark. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Flowers: Fill in the Flowers with Colours / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Downie, Jim; Clark TA; Clark L., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-10990-11203
Scope and Contents

This poem was composed after a work by Tom and Laurie Clark. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Flowers for Midwinter's Day December 22, 1964

 Item — Folder 3: [Barcode: 31858072459419]
Identifier: CC-21267-21677
Scope and Contents

Design by Sam Kirkpatrick. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

Flowers for Midwinter's Day December 22, 1964

 Item — Folder 3: [Barcode: 31858072459419]
Identifier: CC-22075-22492
Scope and Contents This poster was designed by Sam Kirkpatrick. Bill Butler (1934-1977) who ran the Unicorn Bookshop at No 50 Gloucester Road from 1960 to about 1970. After he closed the shop, Bill moved to South Wales and then later died of a suspected drugs overdose (October 1977), but whether this was suicide or accidental is unclear. Bill was very much part of the alternative lifestyle set in Brighton at that time. One of his own books, which he published himself under the pen name of Hassan Sabbah, was called Leaves of Grass: the Hash Cookbook. Who he was Bill's full name was William Huxford Butler. He was an American beat poet and occultist. He was very tall (over 6 feet). He lived in Over Street, very near to his shop. A specialist bookshop The Unicorn Bookshop used to specialise in modern poetry, stocking the work of Ginsberg and similar American and British poets. Graham Greene, who visited the shop, wrote: "Unicorn is one of the most interesting bookshops in Great Britain." The whole of the...
Dates: 1964
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

Fluxus and Friends Going out for a Drive, 1983

 Item — Box 335: [Barcode: 31858072491040]
Identifier: CC-21092-21501
Scope and Contents

Each page reproduces a colored polaroid photograph taken by Ben. Most photographs depict toys or dolls and are captioned by Ben with the name of the artist written in ink. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / BOOKS

Folds / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Clark, Thomas A.; Clark, Laurie., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-35460-37196
Scope and Contents

The two folded cards, one in brown and one in white color have a similar phrase, "folding the last sail" and "folding the last sheep," respectively. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Follies War Special / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-12994-13286
Scope and Contents

The text "Barr the traitor reads his sentence" is illustrated by a hand holding a plumed pen and writing a French political message refers to Finlay's problem with the citation of the Garden Temple in Ian Barr's (Chairman of the Saltire Society - motto Scotland) sponsorship of a book on Architectural Follies in Scotland. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

follow the follow / curry, jw., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-20631-21033
Scope and Contents

This drawing by qaan: lore from the Sinillogical Translations Volume 4 written by curry & Laba was redrawn by curry. It appeared in Devil's Artisan No.16. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Following the Footsteps of Nature / Furnival, John., 1987

 Item — Folder 38: [Barcode: 31858072459989]
Identifier: CC-13258-13559
Scope and Contents

This line drawing depicts a labyrinth from a horizontal-vertical aspect with a central figure of Mother Nature followed by a man, dressed in a robe, who holds a lantern. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES / TO BE PROCESSED / John Furnival

for a lifetime of shooting - buy a gun! / Goswell, Joan Iversen., 2003

 Item
Identifier: CC-40471-42443
Scope and Contents

This depicts a Attorney-General John Ashcroft holding a rifle and sitting on a large pile of red colored, spent rifle bullets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

for a lifetime of shooting - buy a gun! / Goswell, Joan Iversen., 2003

 Item
Identifier: CC-41447-43432
Scope and Contents

The image depicts Attorney General John Ashcroft, holding a rifle and sitting on a large pile of bullets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

for john furnival split dot (120763) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

 Item
Identifier: CC-55818-58811
Scope and Contents

The image is formed solely from slashes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

for 'lemon' read 'zulu' / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Clark TA., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-35465-37201
Dates: 1998
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

For My Birthday / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-12956-13248
Scope and Contents

Adapted from a detail of a sail boat painting by Christopher Wood 1901-1930. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

For Peace / Diotallevi, Marcello., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-29816-31195
Dates: 1997
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

For Peace / Diotallevi, Marcello., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-36601-38409
Dates: 1995
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

For the Temple of the Greeks Our Homesickness Lasts Forever / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Harvey, Micheal., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-33261-34891
Scope and Contents

The image of this picture poem is a stylized, destroyer ship in side view silhouette. The smoke stacks and turrets are labeled with the letters A, B, C, and D. The letters pertain to Greek architectural columns for their temples, viz., Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite. The poem signifies Finlay's love of the neo-classical period, the architecture in the late 18th and early 19th century prevalent in America and Europe that was characterized by wide-spread use of Greek orders and decorative motifs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

For the Temples of the Greeks... / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Harvey, Michael., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-12961-13253
Scope and Contents

This card compares Greek temples to a stylized line drawing of a battleship with several components named for Greek columns. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Forget-Me-Not / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Kedik, Stephanie., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-12095-12319
Dates: 1986
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Found Poem: The Mastless Barges / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Hincks, Gary., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-12962-13254
Scope and Contents

Adapted from a page in "Sailing For A Living" by Basil Greenhill. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

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