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Picture poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1786 Collections and/or Records:

Wonderfool World / Sandlin, David., 2006

 Item
Identifier: CC-46059-48767
Scope and Contents

Sandlin added an upside down, ink drawing of a tea kettle above his signature. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

Wonderings, 1971

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Identifier: CC-03791-3863
Scope and Contents

Each page depicts a picture poem that is printed in black and white. According to Morgan, only 100 copies of this hard cover edition were printed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Woods and Seas / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1980

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Identifier: CC-13287-13588
Scope and Contents

The words "bark," "barque" and "baroque" are printed one to a page along with a small illustration. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Wordsworth Wadsworth / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Downie, Jim., 1977

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Identifier: CC-11268-11483
Scope and Contents The curve lines and jagged bars images on a dark green background that Finlay has drawn related to Wordsworth and Longfellow, respectively are difficult to interpret and probably not biographical in nature as follows below. According to to Roberto Rabe (internet), "probably the best loved of American poets the world over is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Many of his lines are as familiar to us as rhymes from Mother Goose or the words of nursery songs learned in early childhood. Like these rhymes and melodies, they remain in the memory and accompany us through life. There are two reasons for the popularity and significance of Longfellow's poetry. First, he had the gift of easy rhyme. He wrote poetry as a bird sings, with natural grace and melody. Read or heard once or twice, his rhyme and meters cling to the mind long after the sense may be forgotten." According to The Literature Network (internet), William Wordsworth (1770-1850), British poet, credited with ushering in the English...
Dates: 1977

Works In Europe 1972-1995, 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-13126-13423
Scope and Contents

This publication which was edited by Zdenek Felix and Pia Simig was published on the occasion of Finlay's exhibition entitled Works - Pure and Political at Diechtorhallen, Hamburg Germany in 1995. Includes photographs b&w of Finlay's sculptural works, documentation on their significance, and a listing of his collaborators. Archival material forming the basis for several of these works is held by the Sackner Archive, e.g., Max Plank Institute, Stuttgart (1972). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Worried Noodles (The Empty Sleeve) / Shrigley, David., 2006

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Identifier: CC-50616-71689
Scope and Contents

The phrase "Ugly Cunts" is painted in an abstract expressionist field on the inside of the folder covers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

Xmas Rose / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Furnival, John., 1971

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Identifier: CC-11960-12183
Scope and Contents

Also designated Poem/Print No.14 -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Xmas Rose / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Furnival, John., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-11961-12184
Scope and Contents

Also designated Poem/Print No.14. The inscription appears to be in Sue Finlay's handwriting. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Xmas Star / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Furnival, John., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-11938-12161
Scope and Contents

Also designated Poem/Print No.11. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Ye: Wortlos. No.12 / Theo Breuer ; Karl-Friedrich Hacker., 2008

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Identifier: CC-57391-10000702
Scope and Contents

The accompanying book in this issue was numbered 32/100. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

yonimindlotus (290367) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

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Identifier: CC-56200-9999644
Scope and Contents

This page is typed solely with dashes in subtle circular shapes with a distinctive blank circular space in the center of the page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Yorkshire & Cumbria / Furnival, John., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-13168-13469
Scope and Contents

This one of a series of 11 prints, done in collaboration with Jonathan Williams, that deal with the weather in that location of country. The collaged addition to the print is a map of the area. The print is stored in The Locative and Vocative Case. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

you Murderers with your indifference; More Crooked Lines From Paradise / levy, d.a. ; Clark, Tom., 1964

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Identifier: CC-07660-7805
Scope and Contents

One side of this card depictes a picture poem by levy, the other side a conventional poem by Tom Clark. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

[Young Arthur's...] , 1984

 Item — Box 330: [Barcode: 31858072490968]
Identifier: CC-52453-73579
Scope and Contents

This card is part of the Bug House Archives. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984