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Political poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1449 Collections and/or Records:

L'Alphabet Socio-Politique / Villegle, Jacques., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-37178-39022
Scope and Contents

Each card depicts multiple drawings of the designated letter and related political ideograms. The verso of the card explains the symbolism of the latter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Laments, 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-49678-70731
Scope and Contents

The texts printed here are reproductions of original drawings for the inscriptions on stone sarcophagi in the exhibition. The book is also part of a videotape presentation with the same title, the combination also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Laments / Holzer, Jenny., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-31169-32637
Scope and Contents

The texts printed here are reproductions of original drawings for the inscriptions on stone sarcophagi in the exhibition. The book is also part of a videotape presentation with the same title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Landscape with Woods and a Pillar Box for the posting of belligerent Letters / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Gardner, Ian., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-12061-12285
Scope and Contents

Depicts a landscape with a military pillar box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Lasciate Ogni Speranza... , 1987

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Identifier: CC-12900-13191
Scope and Contents

This admonishment in Italian by the Saint-Just Vigilantes means in English, "Abandon every hope to you that enter!" It refers to the Strathclyde tax collectors with whom Finlay had a major dispute. This print appeared in two versions, printed in red and in black; this version is printed in black; the other version in red is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Lay-Out: Curvd H&Z Watch This! / curry, jw., 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-43191-45248
Scope and Contents

The offset fragments were cut from the magazine, The Plain Truth. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Le Cerveau / Deisler, Guillermo ; Treresa Ramos, translator., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-15219-15540
Scope and Contents

Designated as a supplement to Boite Postale No.1. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Le Sentier - The Trail / DuPont, Albert ; Smith, William Jay ; Alain Bosquet, translator ; Sonja Haussmann, translator., 1999

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Identifier: CC-32978-34598
Scope and Contents

The poem written by Smith tells the story of the forced exile of American Indians from Georgia to the territory west of the Mississippi in 1838. The journey on which many died became known as the Trail of Tears. Dupont made an engraving that utilized Indian symbols relating to Smith's poem. Dupont's cover design depicted rows of multi-colored tear drops. Thirty six copies of this book were signed by the authors anf printed on Japon paper; the remainder were unsigned and printed on ordinary paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Le Silence Eternal De Checkpoint Sandy / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Reeve, Antonia., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-12300-12525
Scope and Contents

This depicts a black and white photograph of Finlay's farm, Little Sparta, captioned "...Eastern Frontier at the time of The First Battle of Little Sparta, February 4 1983..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Learner Editor / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-35217-36951
Scope and Contents

This depicts a logograph for Andreas Muller, architectural editor for Birkhauser, publisher of Between Landscape Architecture and Land Art, by Udo Weilacher. Finlay contributed a section to this book and apparently took issue with the editing capability of Muller. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

learning to be a beautiful boy use napalm olive soap to improve your complexion / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-55757-33441
Scope and Contents

A few words are reversals but the entire sentence does not appear to be one. This is an anti-Vietnam war poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Left Curve. No.10 / Hirschman J ; Ginsberg A ; Menefee S., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-43618-45703
Scope and Contents

The theme of this issue is art related to nature. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987