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Political poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1449 Collections and/or Records:

[The Individual Artist's Arrogation..., on red], 1980

 Item — Folder 33: [Barcode: 31858072459922]
Identifier: CC-19944-20332
Scope and Contents

The print is stamped ARTEXT. The color of the text is black, the background is red and the border is white. Presumably. the color schema is unique. The text is the same on all prints with this title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

[The Individual Artist's Arrogation..., on white], 1980

 Item — Folder 33: [Barcode: 31858072459922]
Identifier: CC-19946-20334
Scope and Contents

The background color of the print is white; the text is either black or blue. The text is the same on all prints with this title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

[The Individual Artist's Arrogation..., transparent], 1980

 Item — Folder 33: [Barcode: 31858072459922]
Identifier: CC-19935-20323
Scope and Contents

This print with a graphite border on translucent material has the same text as the other prints with this title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

The Inside Story on Outsiderness / Vogel, Carol; Ligon G., 2011

 Item
Identifier: CC-52362-73485
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 2011

The JAMES R LOWELL DEFENSE FUND (1) / levy, d.a.., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-60433-10003365
Scope and Contents

This work kists books seized by Cleveland police from Asphodel Book shop. almost all the books and several of the magazines are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

The JAMES R LOWELL DEFENSE FUND (2) / levy, d.a.; Brainard J., 1967

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Identifier: CC-60434-10003366
Scope and Contents

The recto of this work sets forth the context of the trial and the verso reproduces a poem by Joe Brainard relating to peace and tranquility. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

The Last Acts of Saint Fuckyou (Window Shade Version) / Bern Porter., 1990

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Identifier: CC-04096-4174
Scope and Contents

The text of this work is laid out in two printed red columns with the space between the columns consisting of the title printed in a large bold typeface. The left column begins, "The abnegating of treaties - The acidifying of alkalis - The afiliation of bastards - The alighning of booby-traps - The ambulating of cripples - The annuling of covenants - The assessing of polls... The right column begins with The naming of misers - The napping of covers - The narrating of contradictions - The nidification of vats - The non-processing of plantiffs - The non-plusing of laities... There were three artist proofs in this edition. Bern Porter was born February 14, 1911 and died June 7, 2004. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

The Madison Collages, 1975

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Identifier: CC-07246-7389
Scope and Contents

The silkscreen cover print of d.a.levy was done by Tom Kryss. The collages were first published in Quixote Vol.4 No.6. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

The Marble Arrow / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1984

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Identifier: CC-12567-12799
Scope and Contents

The card is shaped like an arrow and has been made from marbled paper, a pun on the poem printed along an inside fold, "The Marble Arrow Always Hits Its Mark!" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

The Masses arre Asses / Pietri, Pedro., 1997

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Identifier: CC-60059-10003091
Scope and Contents kenning editions: The Masses Are Asses is a one-act whiteface agitprop farce"”an avant garde tragedy of errors, the only error being its own theatricality. A "Lady" and a "Gentleman" of audacious sophistication extol their superiority and smear "the poor" over champagne in a Parisian bistro that doubles as a South Bronx toilet (or is it the other way around?). A supposed lust for prestige stokes the terrorist group A.B.C.D.E.F.G.H.I. ("Armed / Brave / Comrades / Determined / Efficient / Fighters / Gonna / Humiliate / Imperialism!"), whose bullets and bombs punctuate the night. Needing an effective distraction from the ambient siege (which sounds an awful lot like a characteristic evening in the burrough), the couple "pretend" to be common, drink straight from the bottle, and grind to the rhythm of the telephone as it rings and rings (presumably by would-be patrons of the establishment they insist to inhabit). But when the lady fails to snap out of the masque, the gentleman...
Dates: 1997

The Medium Is the Message / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Costley, Ron., 1987

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Identifier: CC-12391-12617
Scope and Contents

The title has been inscribed on a guillotine blade and underneath it the inscription "Death to the Strathclyde Region" is inscribed on the black background, a reference to Finlay's dispute with the local tax collectors. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

The Moralist, 2002

 Item — Box 84: [Barcode: 31858072538238]
Identifier: CC-39074-41012
Scope and Contents

This work features ambiguities related to censorship. The label of two cigarette packs, "Lucky Strike" is cancelled to leave only "Lust." The cancelling device is a large block of wood with black paint at its tip that serves as phallic symbol. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

The National Trust Follifies / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987

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Identifier: CC-12149-12373
Scope and Contents

This is an attack on the National Trust for regarding Finlay's sculptural garden as an architectural folly. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

The New World Border / Gomez-Pena, Guillermo., 1996

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Identifier: CC-30496-31924
Scope and Contents

Subtitled "Prophecies, Poems & Loqueras for the end of the Century," Gomez-Pena writes about the interaction and space between the Mexican and American cultures using performance art, poetry, essays and dramas as his media. He is involved with the issues of immigration, racial violence, AIDS, political freedom and human rights. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996