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Political poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1438 Collections and/or Records:

Postfluxpostbooklet: Da Da Passt Uber All. No.7 / Luce Fierens ; Gore., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-04592-4679
Scope and Contents

First published in 1990 and reprinted in 1991. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Power / Thorne, David., 1990

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Identifier: CC-01280-1311
Scope and Contents

The title is printed in red color. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Power / Thorne, David., 1990

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Identifier: CC-01281-1312
Scope and Contents

The title is printed in blue color. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Prayers for the Unfaithful / Beatrice Coron., 1997

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Identifier: CC-29854-31235
Scope and Contents

Each one of four folded pages contains a unique silhouette representing the Health Goddess, Love Lord, Wall Street Divinities, and Jetset Lady. The background text humorously presents prayer-like incantations to relieve stressful situations. The metal disc with the fragmented text recto and verso must be spun to read the message "Shit Happens." Maledicta No.12 has a humorous listing by Reinhold Aman of "Shit Happens." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Prayers for the Unfaithful / Beatrice Coron., 1997

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Identifier: CC-29854-31235
Scope and Contents

Each one of four folded pages contains a unique silhouette representing the Health Goddess, Love Lord, Wall Street Divinities, and Jetset Lady. The background text humorously presents prayer-like incantations to relieve stressful situations. The metal disc with the fragmented text recto and verso must be spun to read the message "Shit Happens." Maledicta No.12 has a humorous listing by Reinhold Aman of "Shit Happens." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Premio Figari 2005 (Edited by Patricia Bentancur), 2006

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Identifier: CC-51664-72764
Scope and Contents

Includes a reprint of Ovum 10 No.2, 1970, an issue held in the original by the Sackner Archive. Several of Padin's Signografias and Textos that are reproduced in this book are held by the Sackner Archive as the original drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

Pretend / Piper, Adrian., 1990

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Identifier: CC-04003-4080
Scope and Contents

The images consist of racially charged discrimination newspaper photographs of blacks that Piper has captioned in a red silkscreen text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Project for a Monument to Ludwig Feuerbach / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1986

 Item — Folder 36: [Barcode: 31858072459963]
Identifier: CC-58280-10001513
Scope and Contents

The slogan relates to Finlay's dispute with the local tax collectors. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Project For A Monument To Saint-Just / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Sloan, Nicholas., 1985

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Identifier: CC-11996-12219
Scope and Contents

Instructions are provided for cutting and folding to form a paper pyramid. The epithets applied to Saint-Just by a contemporary appear on the sculpture, viz., beautiful, fanatical, and dictatorial along with his birth and death dates, 1967-1794. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Propaganda for The Wood-Elves / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Dwight, Harvey., 1981

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Identifier: CC-12504-12731
Scope and Contents

Depicts a tree with the Nazi swastika wrapped around its trunk and an axe on the ground leaning against the tree-trunk. From the title and the brown color of the folder, one might interpret the propaganda of these symbols as the Third Reich and the French revolution. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Proposal for a Pair of Gate Piers and Finials / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Townsend, Andrew., 1990

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Identifier: CC-12541-12769
Scope and Contents

Finlay explains the artworks (hand grenades mounted on top of brick and stone towers) as follows: The 'pineapple' finials have become fragmentation grenades, while the combination of brick and stone suggests Virtue and Terror. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990