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Political poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1449 Collections and/or Records:

Doubts and Memories / Morris, Stephen., 1969

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Identifier: CC-38228-40124
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The letter was written by les daly, the publisher of ethos publications, to Bill Wyatt. Daly sent this book as a gift to Wyatt and wrote to him requesting poems for a book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Early Impressions / Gonzales-Torres, Felix., 2006

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Identifier: CC-44905-47077
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The loose sheet is from one of a series of works of an unlimited edition that are given away free (entitled, Helms Amendment 1987...) -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

Eddie (Sylvie's brother) in the Desert. / Fahlstrom, Oyvind., 1966

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Identifier: CC-13095-13390
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Fahlstrom provides instructions for cutting out figures in this print and mounting in other places. The print was part of a portfolio of prints by other artists issued by Tanglewood Press (New York International). *WEB 1998: Sharon Avery-Fahlström. The correct title is "Eddie (Sylvie's brother) in the Desert." Sackner: corrected. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Egg Series: A Curate's Egg, Imperially Hatched, To be Viewed Landscape / Furnival, John., 1976

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Identifier: CC-13273-13574
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Curate is a British term for the assistant to a vicar of the Church of England. The egg shell has been divided into 16 segments, each with a different style of line-drawn hatchings. A lower case letter appears in negative relief on ten of the segments which spells, "excellent." This is a spoof on the British religious tradition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Ein Deutsches Requiem After Brahms / Phillips, Tom., 1972

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Identifier: CC-43368-45430
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This was the first purchase by the Sackners of a Tom Phillips artwork. It was acquired fom Galerie Bama in Paris. According to the colophon, this is a suite of 12 lithographs bvased on Brahms Opus 45. The images were derived from postcards collected by Phillips in Germany and have inset texts, which are treated fragments of the novel 'A Human Document' by W H Mallock, and titles quoting the textural material of the Requiem itself. One of the prints has been framed and hangs in the first floor hallway. In the BBC Music magazine (JUne 2013), comments about the CD of the month Brahms's 'A German Requiem' included the following.This Requiem does not mention Jesus nor is there a fire-breathing 'Dies Irae' striking fear into souls of potentially errant isteners! This is a requiem that sets a German not Latin text to music and doesn't pray for the well-being of the dead but instead comforts the living. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

El Lissitzky 1890-1941 / Lissitzky, El., 1977

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Identifier: CC-30357-31772
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This exhibition was the first complete showing of Lissitzky's work in England. David Elliot contributed a chronological essay on Lisstizky's career, and Lissitzky himself a posthumous autobiography and essays descibing his works. The poster, "Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge," which is illustrated in the catalogue was loaned by the Stedelijk van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven as a letterpress reprinting from 1968. The Sackner Archive holds a copy of this important political print which is thought to be an original print from 1919 and differs in imagery from this reprint. The Sackner Archive also holds Proun 2D listed but not illustrated in the catalogue, For the Voice, USSR in Construction, and the catalogue for the International Press Exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977