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Picture poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1786 Collections and/or Records:

The Cabbage White!?/Green Shadow! etc. / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Fidler, Martin., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-12051-12275
Scope and Contents

This is a drawing of an airplane on take-off or landing with its accompanying shadow. The completed card was unrealized. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

The Collected Artifacts of Robert Callender / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-35402-37137
Scope and Contents

The cover is a color photograph of Callender standing among his artifacts, brushes, sweeper, license plate, etc., that are laid out on the floor. The poem reads, "tidings." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

The Dark Lady / Furnival, John., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-13264-13565
Scope and Contents

In this drawing, the Dark Lady by the Dark Tow(er) was placed in the center section. A portrait of the head of Shakespeare was placed at the upper right and that of Queen Elizabeth on the left. "An Index to the Alphabet of Manuall Significations" (sign language) is drawn on the lower left side. The content of this drawing and scale of the portraits gives a surrealistic-like sensibility. The Archive also holds another drawing relating to this work entitled, [Shakespeare, His Maze]. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

the democratic way of life (5 Oct 1967) / Dom Sylvester Houedard., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-56802-10000170
Scope and Contents

There is no such word as 'deomcratic;' perhaps this is a misspelling of democratic. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Poem and Book Objects

the democratic way of life (5 Oct 1967) / Dom Sylvester Houedard., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-56802-10000170
Scope and Contents

There is no such word as 'deomcratic;' perhaps this is a misspelling of democratic. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Poem and Book Objects

The Difference between a House... / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Stewart, Mark., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-12144-12368
Scope and Contents

In this poem contrasts the styles of two architects, Voysey and Lutyens. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

The Directions / Phillips, Tom ; Rothenberg, Jerome., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-54448-52345
Dates: 1970
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets (unprocessed)

The Divided Meadows of Aphrodite / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Costley, Ron., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-12021-12244
Scope and Contents

The image was the drawing for a sculpture to be made in slate. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

the east is red (230167) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-56130-9999574
Scope and Contents

The name Mao is typed using the symbol @ in the center grid.The title 'the east is red' is typed with dashes. The dsh and date are typed using dots.The paper is typed vertically and is read horizontally -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

The End 2nd Edition / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Gardner, Ian., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-13003-13295
Scope and Contents

A picture on the left depicts is a house on the distant horizon across three rolling fields and a blue background representing the sky. A matching picture on the right depicts a sailboat on the distant horizon beyond the same three rolling fields but with the blue background representing the sea. The caption reads as in a closing remark in a Children's book, "They returned home tired but happy." The End. The Sackner Archive also holds the 1st edition 1972. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

The End / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Gardner, Ian., 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-11966-12189
Scope and Contents

Includes two images and a caption dealing with a return to home from a land trip and from a return from a sea voyage. The caption reads as in a closing remark in a Children's book, "They returned home tired but happy." The End. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

The Errata of Ovid / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-11785-12004
Scope and Contents The relation of the captions to the classical architectural images is obscure but is based upon Ovid's Metamorphoses. For example, both Echo and Narcissus are mentioned in two of Finlay's poems; the significance of "Echo to echo" and the arch is not apparent. However, the reflecting pool of the poem, for 'Narcissus' read 'Narcissus' follows the text of the poem as follows. According to a web site, relating to Narcissus and Echo Ovid's Metamorphoses, "Tiresias, the man recently blinded by Juno (known as Hera in Greek mythology, but this is the story of Ovid who wrote in Latin) and made a prophet by Jupiter (Zeus), quickly gained a reputation for being infallible in his answers about the future. Sometimes, however, the answers of Tiresias were as opaque as those of any other oracle. Liriope, a naiad, became pregnant with the child of the river god Cephisus. When their child was born, Liriope named him Narcissus. She asked the blind seer Tiresias if her son would live a long life and...
Dates: 1983
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

the eschenau summer press & temporary travelling press publi: Collected Notes - Observing Birds. No.43 / Ted Purves., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-33841-35510
Dates: 1999
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals(unprocessed)

the eschenau summer press & temporary travelling press publi: Das Zeichnerische Spatwerk von Immanuel Kant. No.35-36 / Harmut Geerken., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-27506-28560
Scope and Contents

This book is designed such that a printed caption precedes an image printed on translucent paper adapted from Kant's sketchbook. Some of these images involve mathematical equations adjacent to geometric shapes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals(unprocessed)

the eschenau summer press & temporary travelling press publi: es muss alles hand und fuss haben. No.53 / Eugen Gomringer., 2005

 Item
Identifier: CC-49442-70487
Scope and Contents

This piece was done by Gomringer in 2002. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals(unprocessed)

the eschenau summer press & temporary travelling press publi: Let Us Help in Your Recreation Plans. No.30 / Susanne Stovhase., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-27708-28805
Scope and Contents

Depicts four identical photographs of a part of a sitting room with a different caption beneath each of the photographs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals(unprocessed)

the eschenau summer press & temporary travelling press publi: Small Botanical Mythology. No.40 / Paul-Armand Gette., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-29862-31248
Dates: 1998
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals(unprocessed)

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
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS / Ian Hamilton Finlay

The Fishing / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-35270-37004
Dates: 1997
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

The Flageolet's Surname / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Lindsley, Kathleen., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-10982-11195
Scope and Contents The image on this card is a drawing of a drum. Wikipedia 2011: A flageolet is a woodwind musical instrument and a member of the fipple flute family. Its invention is ascribed to the 16th century Sieur Juvigny in 1581.[1] It had 4 holes on the front and 2 on the back. The English instrument maker William Bainbridge developed it further and patented the "improved English flageolet" in 1803 as well as the double flageolet around 1805. They were continued to be made until the 19th century when it was succeeded by the tin whistle. Flageolets have varied greatly during the last 400 years. The first flageolets were called "French flageolets", and have four tone-holes on the front and two on the back. This instrument was played by Frédéric Chalon, Samuel Pepys, and Robert Louis Stevenson. Henry Purcell and George Frideric Handel both wrote pieces for it. Small versions of this instrument, called bird flageolets were also made and were used for teaching birds to sing. The number of keys on...
Dates: 1989
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

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