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Political poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1449 Collections and/or Records:

Beijing / Richard Kelly Tipping., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-01676-1712
Scope and Contents

The text on the sculpture that reads "Machine Guns Against Jeans And Sneakers" is set vertically to suggest Chinese language. The theme deals with the peaceful student and worker uprising against the Chinese Communist government in Tennamon square, Beijing which was militarily suppressed. The image of this work is reproduced in C'est mon dada No.14, 2007. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Beijing / Tipping, Richard Kelly., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-01684-1720
Scope and Contents

This is a photograph of the sculpture held by the Sackner Archive. The text reads "machine guns against jeans and sneakers." It is carved into the stone which is positioned vertically like Chinese text as a reference to Tennimen Square. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Beneath the Ruins / Zellen, Jody., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-34234-35922
Scope and Contents

The text is based upon Maurice Blanchot's "The Writing of the Disaster." the Sackner Archive also holds another copy of slightly larger dimensions that has photocopied pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Beneath the Ruins / Zellen, Jody., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-37376-39229
Scope and Contents

The text is based upon Maurice Blanchot's "The Writing of the Disaster." The Sackner Archive also holds two smaller printed versions in offset with color reproductions of this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Betula Pendula 2 / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1978

 Item
Identifier: CC-12032-12255
Scope and Contents

This depicts an armored tank among Silver Birch trees. It contrasts with the first version in that the first had tree leaves immeshed in the netting over the tank. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Betula Pendula / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-12153-12377
Scope and Contents

Betula Pendula refers to Silver Birch. The image of this drawing is the outline of an armored tank camouflaged by netting covered with tree leaves. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Betula Pendula / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-12156-12380
Scope and Contents

Betula Pendula refers to Silver Birch. The image on this card is an armored tank camouflaged by netting covered with tree leaves. A sketch of this image is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Between the Lines / Cotter, Holland; Homar L; Pietri P., 2006

 Item
Identifier: CC-45112-47292
Scope and Contents

This exhibition, Text as Image: An Homage to Lorenzo Homar and the Reverend Pedro Pietri, was assembled for the El Museo del Bario by Margarita Agiiuilar. Both are Puerto Rican poets, Homar a more conventional printmaker and Pietri a founding member of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

Beyond Labels, 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-33714-35376
Scope and Contents

This book is an anthology of Zend's poetry and perhaps an autobiographical introduction to his political philosophy at the book's beginning. The first concrete poems are dated 1968. Some of the conventional poems are composed with amusing wordplay. There is a section of the book that prints "ditto poems," a term coined by Zend in 1970. This type of poetry first published by Emmett Williams in "Sweethearts" features new words made by dropping letters from the title as seen on the following example below (printed as letters line by line under the title.SAINT? - I - Aint - A - Saint, - I - Sit - in - Sin. In 1982, Zend originated "drop poems." Here the letters of the poem drop from the title and the poet can only use each letter of the title once and only in the original order. The reader, on the other hand, has to read each poem twice: first the title (in two lines), then the poem (second line only). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Beyond the End of the World / Beard, Peter ; Edwards O., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-35834-37594
Scope and Contents

This work is a collage of "photographs, diaries, notes, sketches...phantasmagoria, metamorphoses, natural horrors, and prehistoric memories: Last voices of a lost Africa." The works constituted an exhibition in Milan in 1977. There are hundreds of color plates of Beard's diaries and journals made in Africa. The book was recalled by the publisher due to the introduction by Owen Edwards being published without his permission. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Biased Analogies, 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-46189-48904
Scope and Contents

The generic letter accompanying this book is directed to a reviewer to read this promotional copy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Bicentenary Tricolour , 1989

 Item — Folder 62: [Barcode: 31858072537966]
Identifier: CC-10992-11206
Scope and Contents

The poem on the French tricolor flag reads, "Liberty for Some; Equality for Some; Fraternity for Some" rather than "for All." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Bicentenary Tricolour / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1989

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Identifier: CC-12365-12591
Scope and Contents

Image depicts the French Tricolored Flag with inscription, Liberty for some, Equality for some, and Fraternity with some. This epithat refers to the rejection of Finlay's commission by the city of Paris. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Bicentennial Poster: Keep It Up America. No.2., 1976

 Item — Folder 12: [Barcode: 31858069877862]
Identifier: CC-23442-23886
Scope and Contents

The image depicts icons of an erect penis formed by a rolled dollar bill and testes by two half dollar coins. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Billboard Deriding Helms Removed / Reinhold, Robert; Conal R., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-03481-3538
Scope and Contents

Describes a billboard designed by Robbie Canal which read "Artificial Art Official" with a picture of Jesse Helms. It was removed by the company citing questionable taste. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990