Political poetry

PORmenor / De Araujo, Avelino., 1998

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Identifier: CC-36523-38324

Dates: 1998

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

Pormenor / De Araujo, Avelino., 1999

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Identifier: CC-36526-38327

Dates: 1999

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

Pornografie / Staeck, Klaus., 2007

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Identifier: CC-54095-643023

Scope and Contents This second edition of the book is a complete work of art, offensive in every sense of the word, and as an artistic manifesto about violence in the twenty-first century, it couldn't be any more current, especially given movements like activist art. Pornografie was first published in 1971, and has subsequently become an outstanding and timeless document of political artwork. The Gerrman film-maker Klaus Staeck took news photographs and the advertisements as the basis of this hard-hitting anti-Vietnam War, anti-violence artist`s book.Seven Decaders Books: Klaus Staeck created this book in 1971 as a reaction to the Vietnam War and a protest of the values of the society which allowed the war to continue. Its content is entirely visual and consists largely of blown up press photos and grainy newsreel images as it devel-ops in chapters showing war and its aftermath, protest and its suppression, weaponry and other instruments of violence and con-trol, and finally a long series of...

Dates: 2007

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Portrait de Mau Tse-Tse aux 100,000 Vaginas / Chopin, Henri., 1970

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Identifier: CC-19786-20173

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Also published in Collection Ou No.0. This is a spoof of Chairman Mao stating that he wants to invent a woman with 100,000 vaginas as depicted in the central image of this print. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

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

Portrait of Mr. Charlie Inflation, 1975

Item — Folder 31: [Barcode: 31858072459906]

Identifier: CC-19783-20170

Dates: 1975

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES / TO BE PROCESSED / Henri Chopin

[Portrait of Salman Rushdie (AK)] / Phillips, Tom., 1993

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Identifier: CC-04470-4555

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The print is a realistic portrait of the writer, Salman Rushdie, under a death sentence by the Ayatollah Kumani for writing the book, Satanic Verses. The initials AK (Ayatollah Kumani) are branded on Rushdie's forehead. -- 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

Post-Partum Document / Kelly, Mary., 1999

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Identifier: CC-32573-34154

Scope and Contents The first exhibition of this six part work was in the 1970's. The book is a reprinting of Kelly's conceptual feminist work that was typed in lowercase letters. According to Lucy Lippard, the general theme of the work is "removal, distancing, the weaning process that characterizes socialization and all relationships... and the subject's awareness of the ideologies that rule her experiences." As Kelly herself writes in 1973 in the opening statement, "In the Post-Partem Document, I am trying to show the reciprocity of the process of socialization in the first few years of life. It is not only the infant whose future personality is formed at this crucial moment, but also the mother whose 'feminine psychology' is sealed by the sexual division of labor in childcare."Rachek Warriner (internet); Kelly has made works that examine complicated social issues such as the ramifications of war, and the politics of how our identities are constructed. In Post Partum Document, she was engaging in a...

Dates: 1999

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books