Picture poetry
Found in 1790 Collections and/or Records:
The First Battle of Little Sparta, February 4, 1983 (Flute, Begin with Me), 1984
The medal depicts an automatic machine gun as a metaphor for a flute; commemorates first episode of an assult by the Strathclyde Region tax collectors on Finlay's home. The leaflet accompanyimg this medal commemorating the incident is a visual pun on Virgil's flute, with the vents in the barrel-sleeve as the finger-stops. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Fishing / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1997
The Flageolet's Surname / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Lindsley, Kathleen., 1989
The Garden and the Revolution / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1992
The curators, J.B.Ravenal and A.Miller-Keller state that Finlay "engages classical forms and ideas as an ethical and philosophical means by which to bring present culture into sharper focus... The exhibition presents two central themes in Finlay's work: the garden tradition and the French Revolution." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Garden as a Parenthesis , 1972
The Garden / Astrid Furnival., 1984
The text is based upon the poem "The Garden" by Andrew Marvell, in which Furnival interprets the lines as garden rows. The colors of the wool were hand dyed from natural herbs and plants in her garden. The words are knitted on the tapestry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Garden / Astrid Furnival., 1984
The text is based upon the poem "The Garden" by Andrew Marvell, in which Furnival interprets the lines as garden rows. The colors of the wool were hand dyed from natural herbs and plants in her garden. The words are knitted on the tapestry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Garden Is Open / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987
On the verso, Finlay writes that his garden is opened to members of the National Trust whose book considered Finlay's sculptural garden an architectural folly; however the gate to the garden in the image on the recto is framed with a guillotine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Gloved Hand or Ladies' What-Not / Butler, Frances., 1975
One copy has a maroon paper cover, the other copy a gray paper cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Good Citizen's Alphabet / Russell, Bertrand ; Themerson, Franciszka., 1953
Each letter of the alphabet is set in a different typeface and is illustrated by a cartoon-like line drawing by Themerson that is captioned with a bitter aphorism by Russell. The words for the caption begin with Asinine, Bolshevik, Christian, Diabolic, etc. The book has an inscription by a previous owner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Great Fly Fleet / Patchen, Kenneth., 1955
The Harbour at Gravelines / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1978
The print depicts a blue pointillist image of the harbor. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Harbour / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1971
The photograph on the card was taken by Dianne Tammes. This poem was adapted from Finlay's publication, "A Mast of Hankies." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Hard Angels / Fitzpatrick, Tony., 1993
The Hat / Chwast, Seymour ; Seastone, Leonard., 2004
Chwast provides illustrations of people wearing hats through the ages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The homeward star / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1998
The Illustrated Wilfred Funk / Ferlinghetti, Lawrence., 1971
This poem is also printed without the illustrations in the periodical, Desparado, held by the Sackner Archive with annotations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Immaculate Conception / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1954
This depicts two nuns holding hands while lying in bed; It is collaged onto a page of Furnival's "Liber Amicorum 1964-1984," a book held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Jolly Joker / Ulrichs, Timm., 1978
Depicts a self-portrait of Ulrichs dressed in a Joker costume. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Land's Shadows / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Harvey, Micheal., 1971
Issued at Christmas 1971. Mentioned in Finlay's bibliography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.