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Political poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1438 Collections and/or Records:

Reply Card / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Manduca, John Borg., 1978

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Identifier: CC-12044-12268
Scope and Contents

Depicts an armored camouflaged tank with questions and a check box superimposed upon it, e.g. "Thank you for your communication, You are not the only big shot around here," etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Repression and Recovery: Modern American Poetry and the Politics of Cultural Memory 1910-1945 / Nelson, Cary ; DeZayas M ; Brown B ; Crosby H ; Zukofsky L ; Patchen K ; Lissitzky E ; Apollinaire G ; Meyer A ; Lewis WP ; Gillespie AL., 1989

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Identifier: CC-05534-5641
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Nelson describes the work of "forgotten" poets involved in avant garde cultural and political movements during the period 1910-1945. Includes a great deal of poetry with critical text and documentation by blacks and leftists. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Res Publica: The Public Works 1968-1999 / Gerz, Jochen ; Hapkemeyer A., 1999

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Identifier: CC-33700-35362
Scope and Contents

This catalogue was edited by Andreas Hapkemeyer and Marion Hohlfeldt who also contributed critical essays on Gerz's works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Resistance / Padin, Clemente., 1997

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Identifier: CC-60507-12003421
Scope and Contents

This leaflet was taken from the Archive of O!!Zone 1997. Stored in Padin box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Resurgent Agitprop in Capital Letters / Spears, Dorothy; Kruger B., 2010

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Identifier: CC-51462-72559
Scope and Contents

In Europe, Toronto, the Hamptons and at the coming Whitney branch, Barbara Kruger offers a more global, refective verbal attack. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Retrospectives / Metzger, Gustave ; Phillpot C ; Schwitters K ; Paolini G ; Connor B ; Fontana L ; Reinhardt A., 1999

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Identifier: CC-33030-34652
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Influenced by the Holocaust, Metzger created "an art that aimed at introducing destruction as a means of transforming peoples' thoughts and feelings, not only about art, but to use art to change peoples' relation to themselves and society." Metzger is best known for organizing the Destruction in Art Symposium (DIAS) in London in September 1966. The main object was to focus attention on the element of destruction in Happenings and other art forms including the Viennese Actionists. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Revolution/Virtue/Eloquence/Transparency / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Stirling, Annet., 1993

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Identifier: CC-12429-12656
Scope and Contents

The work is composed of 4 prints each a single word formed from a collage of packets of commercial plant seeds. The height of all the prints is the same with the width smaller or larger depending on the number of the letters in the word. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Riff-Raff / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1988

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Identifier: CC-12188-12412
Scope and Contents

The theme of this card is an attack on the authors of the book, "Follies, A National Trust Guide," that discredited Finlay's Temple Garden. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Rights of Man Declaration / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1988

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Identifier: CC-57804-10001056
Scope and Contents

Deals with cacellation of Finlay's Declaration of the Rights of Man by the French government. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Rockwell Re-Enlisted fro a Nation's Darker Mood / Cave, Damien; Mill G; Kuitca G; Kidd C; Tuttle R., 2008

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Identifier: CC-48327-69352
Scope and Contents

This is a review of the Wolfsonian Museum's exhibition "Thoughts On Democracy." Sixty works by international artists reinterprete Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms posters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Rodney King, 1992

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Identifier: CC-29695-291307
Scope and Contents

The main caption of this anti-police state drawing, printed in large blue, eraser stamped letters reads, "Rodney King Resists Arrest." The latter refers to the unwarranted police beating of Rodney King in Los Angeles, who did not resist arrest, that was taken unbeknownst to the police on video and aired to the American public. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

RU$$IA RU$$IA RU$$IA Last Words From Klondike Pete / UU, David., 1970

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Identifier: CC-50413-71481
Scope and Contents

The right side of the page is torn but does not interfere with the poetic text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970