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Political poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1449 Collections and/or Records:

Collection OUt: Portrait de Mao Tse-Tse aux 100000 Vagins. No.0 / Henri Chopin., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-35976-37742
Scope and Contents

The print idepicts a photograph of Mao along with a photograph of a nude woman collaged with images of eyes and vaginas. The text deals with Mao's appropriation of women in his communist regime. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Collection OUt: Portrait de Mao Tse-Tse aux 100000 Vagins. No.0 / Henri Chopin., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-35923-37687
Scope and Contents

The print idepicts a photograph of Mao along with a photograph of a nude woman collaged with images of eyes and vaginas. The text deals with Mao's appropriation of women in his communist regime. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Collection Pronto Epidemia 47: Domaine Public Tela-Karma. No.5 / Joel Hubaut ; Claude Pelieu., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-20451-20848
Scope and Contents

One of the collages was made as a collaboration between Hubaut and Pelieu. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Column No. 3 (Chile F) / Fahlstrom, Oyvind., 1974

 Item
Identifier: CC-13093-13388
Scope and Contents

This print dealing with worldwide political and environmental issues is the most finished work of same theme in the series of 9 prints. The vividly colored elements are juxtaposed rather than discrete with blank space and the texts are carefully hand printed. Human figures such as Richard M[oses] Nixon, Angela Davis, and Gordon Liddy are drawn with a cartoon-like approach. The Vietnam War, the Russian Communist invasions into other countries, and the American invasions into Latin America are depicted. *WEB 1998: Sharon Avery-Fahlström. This work is correctly titled "Column No. 3 (Chile F)." Sackner: corrected. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Committee of General Security / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-12182-12406
Scope and Contents

This card prints a polemic against Michel Blum, "the intellectual terroist" for his role in rejection of Finlay's commission for the city of Paris. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

(Completely Covered) Random Sightings [The Cleveland Undercovers Sessions], 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-40257-42228
Scope and Contents

According to Horvath, "These nine unpublished drafts of 'cleveland undercovers' trace the poem's progression from its single sheet origin to a 16 page manuscript containing sections which were later removed. None of the early versions contained the 'Introduction' which only appeared with the published poem. 'cleveland undercovers' was initially printed by 7 flowers press." The cover print was based upon a photograph published in a 1966 edition of the Cleveland Press by David Pishnery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Completing the Circle: Artists' Books on the Environment / Beube D ; Denes A ; Freeman B ; Hiller S ; McCarney S ; Minsky R ; Nauman B ; Risseeuw J ; Ruscha E ; VanVliet C ; Vater R ; Nauman B ; Dove R ; Gilbert S ; Wirth K ; Edgar Heap of Birds ; Long R ; Fulton H ; Irland B ; Zimmerman P., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-18928-19306
Scope and Contents

This exhibition of works by American artists dealing with environmental issues was curated by Betty Bright who wrote a critical essay for the catalog. The Sackner Archive lent the artist book, Sisters of Menon, by Susan Hiller to the exhibition. The stapled pages are reviews of the exhibition. The catalog reproduces Rita Dove's print, "Ozone," which is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Complex / Whitworth, Thomas., 1988

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Identifier: CC-00362-370
Scope and Contents

The photographs are silver prints with Sabattier effect. The image relates to military, industrial, manufacturing plants, located near New Orleans with potential pollutution of the environment. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Conceptually Speaking: Translating Global Aesthetics / Platt, Susan; Koraichi R., 2001

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Identifier: CC-43243-45302
Scope and Contents

Rachid Koraichi is mentioned in this review of the exhibition, Global Conceptualism. He is described as "an Algerian living in Tunisia, who stands here also as a window into the Middle East and Muslim culture...Koraichi's calligraphic work uses Arabic script that combines political questions and private psychological explorations. Of course , for the Westerm eye it becomes a formal device that we cannot read." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

[Concrete Poems] / Valverde, Franklin., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-31958-33486
Scope and Contents

The photocopied colored poem is entitled "The Armistice" combines one portion of the each of the logographs for Pepsi Cola and Coca Cola. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

(Con)Text / Jackson, Nicola., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-47231-49974
Scope and Contents

The book consists of typed phrases reminiscent of Jenny Holzer's approach to art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Contexto. No.13/Jul / Spada S ; Dantas CH ; Medeiros J., 1978

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Identifier: CC-29632-31005
Scope and Contents

This issue was printed as a special supplement to the newspaper, "A Republica." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978