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Political poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1449 Collections and/or Records:

Thunderbolt Steers All / Ian Hamilton Finlay., 1975

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Identifier: CC-10989-11202
Scope and Contents

This is one of a series of four medallions produced in 1975 with Ron Costley. An accompanying folded sheet on which is printed a critical text by Stephen Bann is stored in the booklet section of Finlay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Tilting at Corporate Camouflage / Haacke, Hans., 1988

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Identifier: CC-09186-9367
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The curators of this exhibition, which was sponsored by the Gil and Lila Silverman Foundation, published the catalogue in the Grand Rapids Press newspaper as advertisements depicting each work in the show on five successive days. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Time Capsule: A Concise Encyclopedia by Women Artists / Kahn, Robin, editor ; Attie D ; Castoro R ; Dill L ; Edelson MB ; Gordon C ; Knowles A ; Kopystiansky S ; Kruger B ; Laxson R ; Rosen K ; Rothenberg E ; Schneemann C ; Seagram B ; Sleigh S ; Kopystiansky S ; Steiner W ; Coron B ; Stuart M ; Tompkins B ; Romero R ; Rosen A ; Landes-Levi L ; Williams S., 1995

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Identifier: CC-30360-31775
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This book was published to commemorate the United Nations' Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing in 1995. All submissions from women around the world were accepted for the project that was a joint venture with SOS Int'l. Kahn places a short caption on the header of each page that sorts the pages into sequential alphabetical content to simulate pages of an encyclopedia, e.g., COOL IDEA, COTIDIANIDAD, COUPON, COUPS, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Tipo Grafico / Romero, Juan Carlos., 2012

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Identifier: CC-59829-10002878
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Jaun Carlos gifted the book and poster when visiting the Sackner Archive in December 2014. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2012

To All Saint-Just Vigilantes / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987

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Identifier: CC-13012-13304
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Christmas card that refers to the Finlay's turmoil with the Strathclyde region tax authorities. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

To Answer / Mayakovsky, Vladimir., 1982

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Identifier: CC-06282-6397
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The dust jacket is decorated with a constructivistic design of Varvara Stepanova from 1920. There has been water damage to the pages but the text is unaffected. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

To Forgive the Unforgivable / Morris, Stephen., 1997

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Identifier: CC-47018-49756
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The poet/artist conceived of this book of paintings after a visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland. The preface page is partially cut-out and page 23-24 is ripped out. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Today I Wrote Nothing / Kharms, Daniil ; Matvei Yankelevich, translator ; Tufanov A ; Khlebnikov V., 2007

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Identifier: CC-51099-72181
Scope and Contents Wikipedia: Daniil Ivanovich Yuvachev was born in St. Petersburg, into the family of Ivan Yuvachev, a well known member of the revolutionary group, The People's Will. By this time the elder Yuvachev had already been imprisoned for his involvement in subversive acts against the tsar Alexander III and had become a religious philosopher, acquaintance of Anton Chekhov during the latter's trip to Sakhalin. Daniil invented the pseudonym Kharms while attending high school at the prestigious German "Peterschule". While at the Peterschule, he learned the rudiments of both English and German, and it may have been the English "harm" and "charm" that he incorporated into "Kharms". Throughout his career Kharms used variations on his name and the pseudonyms DanDan, Khorms, Charms, Shardam, and Kharms-Shardam, among others. It is rumored that he scribbled the name Kharms directly into his passport. In 1924, he entered the Leningrad Electrotechnicum, from which he was expelled for "lack of activity...
Dates: 2007

Topografia / Silveira, Regina., 1978

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Identifier: CC-30344-31758
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An image of a gun emerges in four stages on a three dimensional grid. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Topolski's Chronicle: International Poetry at tht Royal Albert Hall London. No.5-6 / Alexander Trocchi, editor ; Ferlinghetti L ; Horovitz M ; Morgan E ; Brown P ; Mitchell A ; Smith St ; Jandl E ; Ginsberg A ; Lucie-Smith E ; Voznesensky A ; Corso G ; Hollo A ; Neruda P ; Trocchi A., 1965

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Identifier: CC-36625-38436
Scope and Contents

This issue consists of lithographed reproductions of poems read on June 11, 1965 at the Royal Albert Hall that Trocchi described as a "Happening" because of the unexpected crowd that attended an avant-garde event in a conservative place. Topolski contributed charcoal sketches of the participants. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Torque of the Town / Hobbs, Stephen., 1999

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Identifier: CC-47229-49972
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This book contrasts beautiful color photographs of Johannesburg with texts warning about the dangers in this city. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Totem para Decio Pignartari [Beba Coca-Cola] / Pignatari, Decio; Bonvicino, Regis R.., 1957 - 1979

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Identifier: CC-34076-35756
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This political poem dealing with the influence of the soft drink "Coca Cola" was written by Pignatari in 1975 and rendered into this print by Bonvicino in 1979. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1957 - 1979

Touched by AIDS / Macia C ; Lurie S., 1997

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Identifier: CC-29840-31221
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The Sackner Archive lent "Carta a una Pasion Muerta" by Carlos Macia to this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Transformation: Texte zu Tschenobyl / Sdun, Dieter., 1987

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Identifier: CC-60604-66502
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Each print consists of the same text that decribes the atomic meltdown of Chenobyl. Only one print depicts a easily readable text with the rest shoeing cancellations of blind letterpress words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Translation of a Line from Chenier; A Line of Thin Pale Red / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1991

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Identifier: CC-10941-11153
Scope and Contents

The text was written by Prudence Carlson. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991