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Political poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1438 Collections and/or Records:

Guerrilla 1st Copy / Trevor, Stan., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-45064-47240
Scope and Contents

This long, very powerful, poem deals vividly with the cruelty inflicted upon the losing victims of war and political punishments. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

Guerrilla / Trevor, Stan., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-28822-30140
Scope and Contents

This long poem deals vividly with the cruelty inflicted upon the losing victims of war and political punishments. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

Guest Performace at Franklin Furnace / Holzer, Jenny., 2003

 Item
Identifier: CC-42502-44517
Scope and Contents

This card was printed on the occasion of Franklin Furnace's 20th anniversary. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Guests of the Nation / Reichek, Elaine., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-32250-33809
Scope and Contents

The title of this exhibition takes its name from the title of a short story by Frank O'Connor. The images deal with the turbulent political history of Ireland. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs(unprocessed)

Haiku: Words and Art / Barancik, Bob., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-23807-24255
Dates: 1994
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Hankerchiefs with Black Spots are a aux Pas, but a Black Rim is not. / Heart Fine Art ; Andre C ; Art & Language ; Beuys J ; Boetti A ; Boltanski C ; Breton A ; Brouwn S ; Darboven H ; Houedard DS ; Duchamp M ; Eluard P ; Finlay IH ; Furnival J ; Havel V ; Hoffmeister A ; Klein Y ; Herzfelde W ; Hirst D ; Kolar J ; Lax R ; Levis-Mano G ; Long R ; Koepcke A ; Magritte R ; Nauman B ; Penck A ; Picabia F ; Roth D ; Smithson R ; Teige K ; Ting W ; Themerson S ; Tzara T ; Vostell W ; Williams E ; Olbrich JO ; Weiner L ; Janco M., 2004

 Item
Identifier: CC-47249-49992
Dates: 2004
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs (unprocessed)

Happy Bicentennial / Padin, Clemente., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-47187-49930
Scope and Contents

This book deals with making of a bomb to celebrate the bicentennial anniversary of the founding of the United States. Following this publication, there is a gap in Padin's artistic activities sice he was in prison from 1977-1979 for his artistic activities by the disctatorship at that time and was unable to resume his activities until 1984. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

Happy Hiroshima Day / levy, d.a.., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-36497-38295
Scope and Contents

This is a reprint of a folded card first published by levy in 1966. The original is held by the Sackner Archive. Happy is spelled Hapy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Happy New Year / White, Tom., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-00533-546
Scope and Contents

The words of the title are formed by guns and rifles making a statement on the gun culture evident in the 1990's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Hapy Hiroshima Day / levy, d.a.., 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-07338-7482
Dates: 1966
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets (unprocessed)

Hat. No.13/Nov / ross priddle, editor ; Dellafiora D ; Christie Jas., 2003

 Item
Identifier: CC-41886-43881
Scope and Contents

Hat is stored with its predecessor publication, "VAN." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals(unprocessed)

Hate Rays: You too can help destroy a nation / levy, d.a.; Cornillon J; Wood K; Cornillon S; Deutsch J., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-33861-35532
Scope and Contents

The mainfesto deals with profanity. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Haydn Arbeit / Frank, Jorg., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-10733-10942
Scope and Contents

One of the photographs is a over-painted treatment of a Sackner Archive envelope with a red splash of paint over the Russian text and a black swathe of paint with the word VIE in white. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs(unprocessed)

Hazardous Waste / Neaderland, Louise Odes., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-05735-5843
Scope and Contents

The text and images search for a solution to the AIDS epidemic. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

He patted Boltop / Heart Fine Art ; Anderson L ; Arp H ; Becker J ; Vostell W ; Beuys J ; Belyi A ; Buren D ; Carmi E ; Castro L ; Clemente F ; Darboven H ; DeMaria W ; Dine J ; Lissitzky E ; Finlay IH ; Schmitt T ; Maciunas G ; Fontana L ; Gordon D ; Hains R ; Holzer J ; Jarry A ; Knowles A ; Kolar J ; Kruchenykh A ; Lax R ; LeWitt S ; MacLow J ; Marien M ; Metzger G ; Merz M ; Nitsch H ; Ono Y ; Dufrene F ; Filliou R ; Gysin B ; Heidsieck B ; Picasso P ; Piper A ; Restany P ; Rodchenko A ; Roth D ; Sandback F ; Spoerri D ; Uecker G., 2003

 Item
Identifier: CC-40698-42672
Dates: 2003
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs (unprocessed)

He Spoke Like an Axe: Barere on Saint-Just / Healy, Richard., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-12085-12309
Scope and Contents

The title is printed on an image of an axe. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

He Was the First Schoolmaster of Democracy / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-12159-12383
Scope and Contents

The poem consists of a quotation by Mathier commenting on Robespierre. It is printed in an italicized white text on a black background. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Head of Gwyn Headley / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-12125-12349
Scope and Contents

Gywn Headley, the author of "Follies, A National Trust Guide," made disparaging comments about Finlay's Temple Garden. The image depicts a bust of his severed head held by a human hand. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Head of the Dead Marat / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1987

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Identifier: CC-12396-12622
Scope and Contents The image was taken from the painting by Jacques-Louis David. Wikipedia 2011: During the constitutional monarchy, there were two radical groups vying for power, the Girondins and the Jacobins. Although both groups were more radical in their views than the moderates who had designed the constitutional monarchy, the Girondins were somewhat less radical. In late 1791, the Girondins first emerged as an important power in France. At first the two parties were united in their views. The Girondins were concerned about the plight of the blacks in France's colonies and were instrumental in passing legislation granting equal rights to all free blacks and mulattoes. They wanted the declaration of war against Austria in early 1792 in the hopes that a show of strength would give them leverage with the King. The Jacobins grew increasingly critical of Girondin policies. During the September massacres later that year, the Girondin leaders tried to persuade the crowds out of their bloody attacks....
Dates: 1987
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Head of Waldemar Januszczak / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-12124-12348
Scope and Contents

Januszczak was an art critic for the Guardian newspaper who wrote unkindly of Finlay. The image depicts a bust of his severed head held by a human hand. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

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