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Political poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1449 Collections and/or Records:

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

 Item
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

Morally Superior Products / Rothenberg, Erika., 1983

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Identifier: CC-40994-42973
Scope and Contents

This book deals with a feminist take on media advertising as depicted in cartoon-like drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Most alarming is the growing resistance to pesticides / Nettelbeck, F.A.., 1993

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Identifier: CC-05671-5778
Scope and Contents

Also designated W.S. #6. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Mr. Greene and the White Brigands / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987

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Identifier: CC-12134-12358
Scope and Contents

In this polemic, Finlay attacks Jonathan Cape, the publisher of "National Follies." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Multiple Pleasures / Tipping, Richard Kelly., 1996

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Identifier: CC-34307-36002
Scope and Contents

This folder reproduces in postcard format, "Machine Guns against Jeans and Sneakers," "Caution: There is No Avant-Garde," "Expressive Mail," "Sea Threw," and "Poetry Mail," works held in the original by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Munchen / De Rook, G.J.., 1972

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Identifier: CC-16209-16552
Scope and Contents

Addressed and mailed to Peter Finch, the card has the single word Munchen printed on the recto along with two daggers over the "U." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

mUSe Money / Betty Radin., 1974

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Identifier: CC-45032-47208
Scope and Contents

Designated Object Series No.2. It consists of a single perforated, 'purposely' roughened paper money bag containing three British coins totalling 53 pence. The wrapper is printed with descending rows of dollar and pence signs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

mUSe Money / Betty Radin., 1974

 Item
Identifier: CC-45032-47208
Scope and Contents

Designated Object Series No.2. It consists of a single perforated, 'purposely' roughened paper money bag containing three British coins totalling 53 pence. The wrapper is printed with descending rows of dollar and pence signs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Myriam Salomon Owns the Second World War / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987

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Identifier: CC-12135-12359
Scope and Contents

Myriam Salomon was an assistant editor for Art Press, Paris, a magazine that was responsible in part for the refusal by the city of Paris of Finlay's proposed commission. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987