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Political poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1438 Collections and/or Records:

Execution / Wharton, Margaret., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-42775-44814
Scope and Contents

This drawing provides the assembling instructions for the book object with the same title that is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Exit / Materialen zum Dachau Projekt / Gerz, Jochen., 1972

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Identifier: CC-27272-27828
Scope and Contents

The book is designed to resemble a photograph album with black pages and a single large photograph collaged onto each page. It is a memorial to the Dachau concentration camp in a rather sterlle way.. The writing of the "Dachau Museum" and the writing of the "Dachau Camp" are now intermingled and "their simple presence is the proof of their innocence." This piece is dscribed in Gerz's Catalogue Raisonne Volume II, pages 38-39, a book held by the Sackner Archive. It is designated No.783 in Volume III. The Sackner copy is from the 1st edition; the 2nd edition was reprinted in 300 copies in 1996. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Extinction / Gibbs, Michael., 1974

 Item
Identifier: CC-27774-28903
Scope and Contents

The pages depict a photomontage sequence of a woman removing the alphabet from the floor by means of a fire extinguisher. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Extinction / Gibbs, Michael., 1974

 Item
Identifier: CC-27792-28923
Scope and Contents

The pages depict a photomontage sequence of a woman removing the alphabet from the floor by means of a fire extinguisher. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Fertilized Brains: Prayers & Profanities / Miller, Brown ; Blazek D., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-49111-70151
Scope and Contents

Doug Blazek wrote the "Introfuckion." Brown Miller hand printed the cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Fewer Sculptures! / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1985

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Identifier: CC-12091-12315
Scope and Contents

The full text of the card reads, Fewer Sculptures! More Statues! Live Ammunition in Community Arts! -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Fighting an Elusive Enemy / Chermayoff, Ivan., 2001

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Identifier: CC-37380-39233
Scope and Contents

The two vertical sides of the U in U.S. are destroyed as symbolic of the destruction of the twin towers of the World Trade Center in the September 11 aircrashes by terrorists. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Fin Again(s) Wake / Lemcke, Rudy ; Roth, Lisa., 1992

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Identifier: CC-36559-38361
Scope and Contents

The words in this book are from "Finnegans Wake" by James Joyce. They are arranged around the central names of AIDS drugs as a memory of those who died of the desease. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992