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Picture poetry

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 69 Collections and/or Records:

Police: You're a Criminal; Levy: I'm Civilizing Planet, 1967

 Item — Box 617: [Barcode: 31858072461027]
Identifier: CC-07270-7413
Scope and Contents

Designated as xtra pages from da levy anthology. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Reap The Sac Faction, 1985

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Finlay, Ian Hamilton: [Barcode: 31858072491461]
Identifier: CC-11920-12143
Scope and Contents

The message deals with enlisting help for Finlay's despute with the local tax collectors. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Schooner Sundial: Umbris Solis, 1975

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Finlay, Ian Hamilton: [Barcode: 31858072491461]
Identifier: CC-12008-12231
Scope and Contents

These drawings were done for a sundial sculpture to be made from Portland Stone and Westmorland Slate. The completed sculpture, Umbris Solis, was installed in the National Galleries of Scotland. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Seashells, 1971

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Finlay, Ian Hamilton: [Barcode: 31858072491461]
Identifier: CC-11863-12084
Scope and Contents

The essay written by Stephen Bann on the back inside folder explains the metaphor of grouping designs of hulls of sailing ships like sea shells in a display case. Proctor is a ship designer and Costley the artist who made this print. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Six Proposals for the Improvement of Stockwood Park Nurseries in the Borough of Luton, 1986

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Finlay, Ian Hamilton: [Barcode: 31858072491461]
Identifier: CC-11753-11971
Scope and Contents

Five prints were adapted by Hinks from drawings by Claude Lorrain (1640, 1642, 1643, 1649). The texts of the tree plaques for this proposal were taken from classical sources in Latin and Greek literature. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

[Sundial], 1967

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Finlay, Ian Hamilton: [Barcode: 31858072491461]
Identifier: CC-12350-12576
Scope and Contents

This photograph depicts a sundial sculpture, "The Four, Seas, -Ons In, Sail. A sail is placed in the center to deflect the sun and cast a shadow. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Temple, n, 1984

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Finlay, Ian Hamilton: [Barcode: 31858072491461]
Identifier: CC-12088-12312
Scope and Contents

Temple denotes the exhibition space at Finlay's residence. The caption under an image of a Greek temple includes a definition, a quote from The Metamorphosis of Ovid, and the storming of Finlay's Temple by the Strathclyde region tax collectors who launched a surprise attack on Budget day, March 15, and successfully looted the garden TEMPLE. The definition is "a marbled edifice, a veined edifice; the seat or summit of reason." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Terror/Virtue, 1983

 Item — Box 184: [Barcode: 31858072459542]
Identifier: CC-12419-12646
Scope and Contents

The leaflet provides an explanation for the image on the medal. Virtue is signified by two classical columns and terror by the two posts of the Guillotine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

The Badger Poets / Cohen, David ; Mason, Roger ; Phillips-Smith, Elizabeth ; Phillips-Smith, Tony ; Pickering, Frank., 1981

 Item — Box 396: [Barcode: 31858072461605]
Identifier: CC-17387-17752
Scope and Contents

Each poem is presented both conventionally and visually with calligraphic text on opposing pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

The First Battle of Little Sparta, February 4, 1983 (Flute, Begin with Me), 1984

 Item — Box 147: [Barcode: 31858072458007]
Identifier: CC-12418-12645
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1984

The Immaculate Conception, 1954

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-09836-10030
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1954

The Marble Arrow, 1984

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Finlay, Ian Hamilton: [Barcode: 31858072491461]
Identifier: CC-12567-12799
Scope and Contents

The card is shaped like an arrow and has been made from marbled paper, a pun on the poem printed along an inside fold, "The Marble Arrow Always Hits Its Mark!" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

The Nuclear Fan, 1984

 Item — Box 610: [Barcode: 31858072460862]
Identifier: CC-44062-46178
Scope and Contents

Each leaf of the fan depicts the same atomic explosion and a single word caption. The words form the following sentence, "This is only a test." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

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

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

Through a Dark Wood/Midway, 1976

 Item — Box 190: [Barcode: 31858072459609]
Identifier: CC-11914-12136
Scope and Contents

Relates to the World War II battle of Midway. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Through a Dark Wood/Midway, 1975

 Item — Box 147: [Barcode: 31858072458007]
Identifier: CC-11915-12138
Scope and Contents

A folded sheet onto which is printed a critical text by Stephen Bann accompanies this medallion. The image is a metaphor for the World War II battle of Midway in the South Pacific which was fought with airpower rather that ship to ship sightings. The text accompanying this work is stored in a box of Finlay booklets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975