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Picture poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1790 Collections and/or Records:

Proposal for a Monument to Jean-Jacques Rousseau , 1986

 Item — Folder 62: [Barcode: 31858072537966]
Identifier: CC-12339-12565
Scope and Contents

Printed by Stellar Press. Deals with the ideas of Rousseau on nature that formed the ethical and political behavior of the leaders of the French Revolution. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Proposal for a Pair of Gate Piers and Finials / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Townsend, Andrew., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-12541-12769
Scope and Contents

Finlay explains the artworks (hand grenades mounted on top of brick and stone towers) as follows: The 'pineapple' finials have become fragmentation grenades, while the combination of brick and stone suggests Virtue and Terror. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Proposal for a Tree-Plaque: MD / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Harvey, Michael., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-12553-12781
Scope and Contents

The print depicts the letters 'MD,' standing for Marguerite Dennel, the last widow of Jean Baptiste Louvet (1760-1797), an enemy of Robespierre. Louvet lived as a fugitive in the forest of Jura and recalling the love for his separated family, "I engrave on the tender bark of the beech-tree the initials of my dear..." Finlay has recreated this drawing in the print with Michael Harvey. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Proposal: Frogbit / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-35366-37100
Scope and Contents

The drawing was done in collaboration with Angus Modelmakers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Proverbs of the Meadow and the Mountain / Clark, Thomas A. ; Clark, Laurie., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-20845-21254
Scope and Contents

Each of the 24 pages of this book consists of a single picture poem in the style of Ian Hamilton Finlay with whom the Clarks have collaborated. For example, a sundial is depicted with the caption, "The metronome is accurate but the sundial is faithful." All the poems deal with the outdoors. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

P.T. Exercises / Wheatley, Steve., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-47783-68802
Scope and Contents

This book depicts a pose by a female model to illustrate a word with its definition, e.g. pat, post, pert. etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

puinen tankii [wooden tank] / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-58052-10001298
Scope and Contents

This is a drawing of a Finnish toy in camouflage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Pulmonary Consumption / Orshi Drozdik., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-16294-16640
Scope and Contents

The work glass box that includes on its back surface the text of a sandblasted reproduced letter from Frederic Chopin to a friend regarding his landlord's negative reaction to the learning of Chopin's having contracted tuberculosis, a metaphor for the often negative contemporaneous reaction to AIDS. The red colored salt crystals & the vellum along the bottom & the diagonally upright plexiglas rod placed in the box symbolize splitting (spiting) of blood from the tuberculous lungs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

PurgaSquare Postcard: If You See Something, Say Something. No.1 / Bob Holman., 2007

 Item
Identifier: CC-46354-49079
Scope and Contents

Polly Faust made the linocut of a banana and Dikko Faust did the letterpress text on the recto. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Push-Machinery. No.5 / Daniel f. Bradley, e. Rolden, editors ; Brock R ; Power N ; Venright S ; Baczyk R ; Ross S ; Smith J ; Bradley Df., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-04132-4211
Scope and Contents

Includes reproduction of the collage, "Sleep Patterns" by Daniel f. Bradley, a drawing held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986