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Political poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1438 Collections and/or Records:

Men in the News. No.16., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-06118-6232
Scope and Contents

The images in this issue are presented in the style of Barbara Kruger with reference to the first Iraq Gulf War. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Menu a la Carte / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987

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Identifier: CC-12133-12357
Scope and Contents

The card lists the names of Finlay's artistic critical antagonists in the form of a menu. They include Danton, Hebert, Clootz, Meulenkamp, and Headley. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Messages / Holzer, Jenny., 1986

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Identifier: CC-09053-9232
Scope and Contents

The labels consist of short messages, e.g., Private Property Created Crime. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Messages That Conduct as Electric Charge / Cotter, Holland; Ligon G., 2011

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Identifier: CC-52361-73484
Scope and Contents

This is an exhibition review of the work of Glen Ligon. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011

Midrash for Macbeth: Selected and New Poems / Falleder, Arnold ; Burns G., 2000

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Identifier: CC-37331-39182
Scope and Contents

The book includes two line drawings by Gerald Burns. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Midship Section / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1996

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Identifier: CC-35200-36934
Scope and Contents

This card depicts a line drawing of a mid section of a sail boat labeled in black except for the word "carling" that is labeled in red. This word means a short fore-and-aft beam running beside a hatchway, mast hole or other deck opening to support the inner ends of the partial deck beams in way of the opening. The card is dated Christmas 1996 from Little Sparta and the significance of this word poem might relate request support of Finlay's fight against The Stathclyde Region taxation board. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Millet: Pseudo-Moralist / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987

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Identifier: CC-12575-12807
Scope and Contents

Print depicts a photograph of a bust of a feminine head in a basket that is captioned by the title of this print. Millet was the editor of Art Press Paris who was responsible in part for the city of Paris' rejection of Finlay's sculptural proposal. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Minneslista (Till "Dr. Schweitzers Sista Uppdrag") [Dr. Schweitzer's Last Mission] / Fahlstrom, Oyvind; Hitler A; Mussolini B., 1964

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Identifier: CC-13104-13399
Scope and Contents

Each print has a large abstract shape onto which a Swedish text has been printed in a conventional layout. The colors of the predominant shape differ among the prints, viz., green, brown, orange and yellow. A 4 x 10 grid of the same word is repeated on each of the four prints, e.g., pluttsang, pluttsalong, pluttang, and pluttsarong. There are a few English phrases in the poem such as man in rain, grotto with pleasure, irridescent light, and Strategic Air Command. Each print depicts a coloured, imaginitive map, with text on each map. The first print also contains "Rules of the game". This is explained to be a project or an alternative for a "Game-painting": "Dr. Schweitzer s last mission". A kind of linguistic-political game for four players. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Mirrors of History / Thalia ; Young, Karl., 2000

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Identifier: CC-34642-36343
Scope and Contents

This work consists of two, sepia-toned, photographs from WWII Germany and an ideographic drawing by thalia superimposed on each photograph. The ideograms read 'Knowledge of History' and 'Mirrors of Blindness.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Miss America / Stern, Howard ; Kidd C., 1995

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Identifier: CC-03052-3097
Scope and Contents

Steven Heller in the NY Times Book Review writes that the "book's design, a complex melange of typographic hierarchies...a remarkable display of deconstructive, post-structural, post-modern experimentation - or words that explode across the page... Miss America owes a distinct debt to Apollinaire's Il Pleut, Marinetti's Zang Tumb Tumb and McLuhan's Medium... Unfortunately, Miss A. really doesn't go as far...while the design screams and shouts...actually pretty timid." It is profusely illustrated. This a first edition, first printing. Chip Kidd designed this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Mitologie Gutenberghiane Nella Fonderia Digitale / Pirella, Francesco ; Persico M., 1999

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Identifier: CC-33808-35474
Scope and Contents

Includes diagramatic interpretations of illustrations of torture. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Mixed Messages / DeHoyos J ; Giorno J ; General Idea ; Gonzalez-Torres F ; Kass D ; Keegan M ; Lemke R ; Ligon G ; Ono Y ; Pennock C ; Pierson J ; Rosen K., 2011

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Identifier: CC-52716-73852
Scope and Contents

This exhibition tha was curated by John Chaich for Visual AIDS presents text based works on the reactions to AIDS. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011

Mogadishu, 1993

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Identifier: CC-29694-31069
Scope and Contents

The main caption on this anti-war drawing in large red, eraser stamped letters reads, "Death does not Stop Death." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Monostitch for the French Election / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Millet C., 1988

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Identifier: CC-12179-12403
Scope and Contents

This is a poetic attack in French on Catherine Millet, Editor of Art Press Paris, for her support in the rejection of Finlay's commission for the city of Paris. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Montage and Modern Life: 1919-1942 / Maud Levin, curator ; Annette Michelson, curator ; Christopher Phillips, curator ; Sally Stein, curator ; Matthew Teitelbaum, curator ; Margarite Tupitsyn, curator ; Heartfeld J ; Zwart P ; Klucis G ; Lissitzky E ; Rodchenko A ; Stepanova V ; Telingater S ; Hoch H ; Hausmann R ; Schwitters K ; Bayer H ; Buchartz M ; Baumeister W ; Tschichold J ; Schuitema P ; Ermilov V., 1992

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Identifier: CC-33605-35259
Scope and Contents

This exhibitiontraced the history of photomontage in early 20th century life. It was divided into nine sections: Speed Up, War Machines, The City, Rapid Transit, The New Woman, the Artists Engagement with the Mass Media, the Body Refigured, the Political Spectrum of Montage and Film. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Month of the Pocket Battleship / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1984

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Identifier: CC-12086-12310
Scope and Contents

The card lists 12 months with Finlay's take on history without specifying the name of the month, e.g., Month of the Hurricanes, Month of Revelations, Month of the Trawl and Month of the Pocket Battleship (only phrase printed in red), Month of the Snowman, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Monument to Television Chernobyl, 1992

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Identifier: CC-03577-3641
Scope and Contents

Chernobyl refers to a city in Russia in which a major nuclear accident took place. Rabascall has depicted the event by presenting the city as an ancient pyramid with four television receivers and a satellite dish on its top and letters covered with sand falling in a disorderly arrangement down the slopes of the pyramid. The latter might signify the initial concealment of the magnitude of this disaster by the Soviet government. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Monument to Television Chernobyl (1992) / Rabascall, Joan., 1993

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Identifier: CC-03613-3678
Scope and Contents

The photograph depicts the sculpture in a plexiglas case that was purchased by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993