Picture poetry
Found in 1790 Collections and/or Records:
Proposal for a Monument to Jean-Jacques Rousseau , 1986
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.
Proposal for a Pair of Gate Piers and Finials / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Townsend, Andrew., 1990
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.
Proposal for a Tree-Plaque: MD / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Harvey, Michael., 1991
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.
Proposal for an Inscription to be added to the Monopteros in the English Garden, Munich / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1993
Proposal: Frogbit / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1997
The drawing was done in collaboration with Angus Modelmakers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Prosaic Proverbs / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Lindsley, Kathleen., 1991
Proverbs of the Meadow and the Mountain / Clark, Thomas A. ; Clark, Laurie., 1986
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.
Proverbs of the Meadow / Clark, Thomas A.; Clark, Laurie., 1980
P.T. Exercises / Wheatley, Steve., 1981
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.
Publications 1972-1980 / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1980
puinen tankii [wooden tank] / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1975
This is a drawing of a Finnish toy in camouflage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Pulmonary Consumption / Orshi Drozdik., 1988
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.
PurgaSquare Postcard: If You See Something, Say Something. No.1 / Bob Holman., 2007
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.
PurgaSquare Postcard: Lone Survivor of the Past. No.4 / Susan Happersett., 2006
PurgaSquare Postcard: Ranch House Redux. No.3 / Holly Anderson., 2007
PurgaSquare Postcard: the Gentlemanly Art of Pugilism. No.12 / Jim Tolan., 2006
Push-Machinery: A Dream of Man Ray on a Night Bus. No.4 / Daniel f. Bradley., 1986
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
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.