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Picture poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1790 Collections and/or Records:

The Stork / Smith, William Jay., 1954

 Item
Identifier: CC-42603-44619
Scope and Contents

This poem pamphlet announces the birth of Gregory Jay Smith, son of William Jay Smith and his first wife, Barbara Howes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1954

The Tiredness part 1 / Roberts, M. Rees., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-50776-71854
Scope and Contents Internet: The full name of the artist is Marcus Rees Roberts. Following his degree in English at Cambridge, Marcus Rees Roberts studied Film Theory at the Slade School of Fine Art, where he wrote his thesis on German Expressionist Cinema. He then completed a second post-graduate course in printmaking at the Slade. In 1977 he was awarded the Slade Prize and appointed teaching assistant in printmaking. In 1980 he moved to Scotland to lecture at Edinburgh College of Art. In 1982 he was appointed Visiting Professor at the University of Central Florida and in 1989 as Lecturer in charge of Printmaking at Edinburgh College of Art, a post he held until 1995, when he returned to live and work in London. Rees Roberts has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad; venues include the Portland Art Museum (International Print Exhibition), Oregon; University of Central Florida, Orlando; Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina; The Slade Gallery, London; The Strang Print Room at University...
Dates: 1971

The ursakrament and eschaton / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1960

 Item
Identifier: CC-55315-9999064
Scope and Contents

Eschaton is consumation of the collective history of humankind and the urskrament is the German word for sacrament. The Catechism of the Catholic Church defines the sacraments as "efficacious signs of grace, instituted by Christ and entrusted to the Church, by which divine life is dispensed to us. The visible rites by which the sacraments are celebrated signify and make present the graces proper to each sacrament. They bear fruit in those who receive them with the required dispositions." The catechism included in the Anglican Book of Common Prayer defines a sacrament as "an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace given unto us, ordained by Christ himself, as a means whereby we receive the same, and a pledge to assure us thereof." In the image the subject is sitting on a chair. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1960

The Wakests, 1993

 Item — Box 305: [Barcode: 31858072460953]
Identifier: CC-37930-39810
Scope and Contents

The first five cards provide documentation of this project that deal with line drawings of "Wakest" creatures on the recto with a two word caption on the verso. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

The Wanderings of Ulysses / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Tammes, Diane., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-35353-37087
Scope and Contents

The black and white photograph on the cover depicts grazing sheep with a portion of a black sail on the horizon. The poem reads, "He comes to Little Sparta." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

The Wartime Garden / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Costley, Ron., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-12559-12791
Scope and Contents

This depicts 10 line drawn, picture poems printed in red and black, one to a page that involve a war theme. A complete reprinting of this book appeared as a section of the catalog for Finlay's exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery (1977). Unable to locate an entry for this book, which was printed by the Stellar Press, in the Finlay bibliographies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

The Wartime Garden / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Costley, Ron., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-10932-11144
Scope and Contents

There is no reference made to this book in the various Finlay bibliographies but the the same images printed on identical paper are bound into the exhibition catalog, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Serpentine Gallery, London, 1977, a book also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

The Watercolor Way / Blei, Norbert., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-23622-24069
Scope and Contents

The covers depict a self-portrait of the artist and the integrated caption, "I am Thick with Poems Today." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

The Words Are the World / Garnier, Pierre., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-30758-32203
Scope and Contents

Each page consists of a simple line drawing and a caption, e.g., melancolia underneath a hand drawn circle, mountain and reflection underneath a diamond. The meanings of these picture poems often are obstruse. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

The Worst Moment Is When You Realize That You Can't Change the Course of Art History, 2009

 Item — Box 327: [Barcode: 31858072490943]
Identifier: CC-49782-70836
Scope and Contents

The collaged card depicts a photograph of Vittore and an unknown man seated and reading books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009

Thermidor, 1994

 Item — Box 147: [Barcode: 31858072458007]
Identifier: CC-12767-13032
Scope and Contents

Stephan Bann provides an explanation of the poem in the accompanying leaflet as follows. Thermidor was the month in the French Revolutionary calendar when the summer heat was its most intense, and the grain at its ripest. It was also the month, in 1794, when Robespierre and his followers met their deaths at the guillotine. In the image of this poem, the abrupt cleavage of the word, THER MIDOR, and of the figured sheaf of flowers, suggest the termination of the revolution in its Jacobian sense. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Thermidor, after Kate Greenaway / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-11087-11302
Scope and Contents

Thermodor indicates a name of the month during the French Republican calendar. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Thermidor / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Clark, Laurie., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-10662-10871
Scope and Contents

Each poem consists of a drawing by Laurie Clark and a caption by Finlay dealing with the Republican calendar (France 1793-1805) during the first week of the revolution in 1794 in which the Robespierrists were executed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989