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Picture poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1790 Collections and/or Records:

Le Silence Eternal De Checkpoint Sandy / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Reeve, Antonia., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-12300-12525
Scope and Contents

This depicts a black and white photograph of Finlay's farm, Little Sparta, captioned "...Eastern Frontier at the time of The First Battle of Little Sparta, February 4 1983..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

leaning on an angel (750717) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-33088-34713
Scope and Contents

Interrupted horizontal lines, formed from joined underline marks, delineate the wall of a tube depicted on-end. The title is typed with Houedard's slash/dash font. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Learner Editor / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-35217-36951
Scope and Contents

This depicts a logograph for Andreas Muller, architectural editor for Birkhauser, publisher of Between Landscape Architecture and Land Art, by Udo Weilacher. Finlay contributed a section to this book and apparently took issue with the editing capability of Muller. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

L'Embarquement pour l'Ile de Cythere: Homage to Watteau / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-27565-28639
Scope and Contents

The title of the work is printed on the folder; the print is of green stock paper and has a caption at its bottom that is entitled, ANTIQUE WOVE. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Lemon on a Blue Cloth / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Jo., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-35354-37088
Scope and Contents

The cover depicts a drawing of a black (not blue) sailboat with the inside of the hull printed in yellow. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Lemon with Oranges / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Boulton, Janet., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-35467-37203
Scope and Contents

The cover depicts a toy sail boat done in pastels. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Lemons without Bitterness / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Jo., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-35387-37122
Scope and Contents

The image on this card is a sailboat while the poem deals with Utopian ideas. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Lemoos / Blaine, Julien., 2007

 Item
Identifier: CC-47998-69021
Scope and Contents

This card depicts a color photograph of a the face of a Lemur on Madagascar. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Les Femmes de la Revolution - After Anselm Kiefer / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-10956-11168
Scope and Contents

The images depict realistic flowers captioned with the name of women prominent in the French Revolution, e.g., Marie Antoinette, Albertine Marat, etc. Although Finlay suggests an indebtedness in the title to the German artist Kiefer, the arrangement of the flowers and captions is more suggestive of a print that could have been made by Marcel Broodthaers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Les Femmes de la Revolution - After Anselm Kiefer / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-12249-12473
Scope and Contents

The card depicts 12 images of flowers that are captioned with names of women prominent in the French Revolution such as Marie-Antoinette, Albertine Marat, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Les Hirondelles / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Costley, Ron., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-11962-12185
Scope and Contents

Hirondelles are swallows (birds), and the image of musical notes on a blue background (sky) serve as a metaphor to the birds. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Les Saltimbanques / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Bellingham, David., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-35195-36929
Scope and Contents

The card depicts a color photograph of a house facade with a window in which two, toy sail boats are placed upon its sill. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Les Sans Culottes / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Clark, Laurie., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-12130-12354
Scope and Contents

Image depicts a row of trees. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Letter & Card to Ian Hamilton Finlay regarding the Aurora Cruiser Card / Riddell, Alan., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-59822-61276
Scope and Contents This correspondence was included in the Pedlar Finlay Archive but apparently the card was never published by Finlay nor is there any correspondence from Finlay about this project. The photograph of the Aurora was printed in Leningrad. Wikipedia: "Aurora (Russian: Авро́ра, tr. Avrora; IPA: [ɐˈvrorə]) is a 1900 Russian protected cruiser, currently preserved as a museum ship in St. Petersburg. Aurora was one of three Pallada-class cruisers, built in St. Petersburg for service in the Pacific Far East. During World War I Aurora operated in the Baltic Sea performing patrols and shore bombardment tasks. In 1915, her armament was changed to fourteen 152 mm (6 in) guns. At the end of 1916, she was moved to Petrograd (the renamed St Petersburg) for a major repair. The city was brimming with revolutionary ferment and part of her crew joined the 1917 February Revolution. A revolutionary committee was created on the ship, with Aleksandr Belyshev elected as captain. Most of the crew...
Dates: 1975

Letters to the Great Dead: And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye... / Furnival, John., 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-38797-40711
Scope and Contents

This is an ink-jet print made from an original etching as noted on the verso by Furnival. The edition size is not provided. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Letters to the Great Dead: Ant on Bruckner / Furnival, John; Williams, Jonathan., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-13159-13460
Scope and Contents

Can be read as "Ant on Bruckner." The print depicts a portrait of Anton Bruckner, the composer, with a large ant on the top of his head. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984