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Picture poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1790 Collections and/or Records:

Jar / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-35361-37095
Scope and Contents

The print depicts a jar with three toy propellers, "Keilkraft Propellers" (1997), as in another card by Finlay and Hincks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

JFK: The Adirondack Diary / Taylor, Thomas Lowe., 1993

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Identifier: CC-62526-47680
Scope and Contents

This is a book in the Chapbook series of the press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Join the Saint-Just Vigilantes (1) / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1983

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Identifier: CC-12081-12305
Scope and Contents

Depicts four different types of drums carried by marchers. Deals with Finlay's dispute with the Strathclyde region tax collectors. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Join the Saint-Just Vigilantes (2) / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1983

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Identifier: CC-12111-12335
Scope and Contents

This card is subtitled, "and be a counter-composition." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Joseph Bara 1779 - 1793 / Agricol Viala 1780 - 1793 / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Clark, Laurie., 1991

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Identifier: CC-12217-12441
Scope and Contents The card reads Joseph Bara 1779 - 1793 & Agricol Viala 1780 - 1793 surrounded by hobby horses and toy snare drums. Wikipedia 2011: Joseph Bara, also written Barra (30 July 1779, Palaiseau "“ 7 December 1793 Jallais) a young French republican soldier at the time of the Revolution. He was in fact too young to join the army but attached himself to a unit fighting counter revolutionaries in Vendée. After his death General J.-B. Desmarres gave this account, by letter, to the Convention. "Yesterday this courageous youth, surrounded by brigands, chose to perish rather than give them the two horses he was leading." The boy's death was seized on as a propaganda opportunity by Robespierre, who praised him at the Convention's tribune saying that "only the French have thirteen-year-old heroes". But rather than simply being killed by Breton royalists who solely wanted to steal horses, Bara was transformed into a figure who denied the Ancien Régime at the cost of death. His story became that...
Dates: 1991

Joseph Bara after Gris / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1987

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Identifier: CC-12397-12623
Scope and Contents

Joseph Bara was the name of the little drummer boy of the French revolution and the image is adapted from a cubist painting by Gris entitled "Drummer." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Juxta. No.2 / Jim Leftwich, Ken Harris, editors ; Bennett JM ; Berry J ; Ganick P ; Heman B ; Basinski M ; Barone D ; Kettner M ; Nash S ; Nielsen D ; Selby S ; Murphy S ; Grumman B., 1995

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Identifier: CC-08320-8483
Scope and Contents

This issue includes a section from Jake Berry's "Brambu Drezi Book Two." The Sackner Archive holds the manuscript of this book as well as the trade edition book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

K S - R / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Jo., 1997

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Identifier: CC-35370-37104
Scope and Contents

The image and caption were adapted from Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Kaligrama / David, Jasa., 1963

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Identifier: CC-41896-43891
Scope and Contents

The bookselller,"Waiting for Godot," indicated that only one copy is held by the National Library of the Czech Republic. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Kamikaze Butterflies - Cherry Blossom Splinters / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1973

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Identifier: CC-11893-12115
Scope and Contents

Finlay combines line images of airplanes with analogies to butterflies and a cherry blossom. This work consists of a folded sheet of light blue, blank tissue paper containing a second, slightly smaller, folded sheet of white tissue paper with line drawings of aeroplanes and text (in blue). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Keilkraft Propellers / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1997

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Identifier: CC-35356-37090
Scope and Contents

The line drawing on the cover depicts a still life after Ben Nicholson, "Three Mugs and a Bowl." The title refers to the toy propellers in the bowl. A similar image of the propellers was drawn in the silkscreen print by Finlay and Hincks, "Jar" 1997 -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Kellkraft Propellers / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1997

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Identifier: CC-58332-10001550
Scope and Contents

The image of this print was done by Hincks after a painting by Ben Nicholson, "Three Mugs and Bowl." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Kite: Willing Wings / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1971

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Identifier: CC-11942-12165
Scope and Contents

Finlay uses the kite as a metaphor for a leaflet dropping, propoganda, aircraft aimed at the Arts Council of Great Britain and the Fulcrum Press to argue his displeasure with these two groups. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Klassische Landschaft , 1985

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Identifier: CC-12569-12801
Scope and Contents

Two versions of a landscape by Johann Christian Reinhart are altered by the words Xaipe and W ave inscribed into stones in the foreground. The former means hail or farewell in Greek and ave in the latter picture means the same in Latin. The addition of w creating the word wave relates to the flowing spring. There is a stone in Finlay's garden inscribed WAVE/ave. Printed by the Stellar Press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985