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Political poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1438 Collections and/or Records:

[Untitled] , 1998

 Item — Folder 77: [Barcode: 31858072538360]
Identifier: CC-30876-32328
Scope and Contents

The image is the maquette (included color highlights that are not in the book illustration) of an illustration for the book, "Pro Eto" by Mayakovsky and Rodchenko. The book and the photograph printed from the original black and white negative are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

[Untitled] / Gomez, Helios., 1998

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Identifier: CC-39017-40954
Scope and Contents

This catalogue includes reproductions of the revolutionary drawings, books and prints of Gomez. His work spanned the years of the tumoil in Spain, Europe and Russia duing which time he was jailed and exiled. Gomez can be considered a cultural revolutionary for portraying the left-wing world in his artistic legacy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

[Untitled] / Neshat, Shirin., 2000

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Identifier: CC-39344-41294
Scope and Contents

In addition to an incisive critical essay, this catalogue also includes an interview with Shirin Neshat and reproductions from the video trilogy Turbulent, Rapture and Fervor. Further, several visual poetic photographic prints from the Women of Allah series are reproduced. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

[Untitled] / Neshat, Shirin., 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-39366-41318
Scope and Contents

The catalogue includes descriptive texts and illustrations for Neshat's following videos: Turbulent, Rapture, Fervor, Soliloquy, Passage and Pulse. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

[Untitled] / Neshat, Shirin; Patkin, Izhar; Fuchs, Rafael., 2005

 Item
Identifier: CC-44476-46626
Scope and Contents

The image of this print consists to two arms, one wrapped in a Jewish religious ornament known as tfellin, the other with a Farsi text. Fuchs printed this work. The image was was reproduced in the November 2009 issue of Art in America page 121. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

[Untitled] / Pyros, John., 1983 - 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-04188-4267
Scope and Contents

Each collage has the printed, paper label "Epistolary Stud Farm, Tarpon Springs, FL." The verbal/visual content of the images deals with politics of Ronald Reagan's first term as president. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983 - 1984

[Untitled] / Stilinovic, Mladen., 2018

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Identifier: CC-62928-10004584
Scope and Contents

Stilinovic died in 2016. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2018

[Untitled: Wo man Bucher Verbrennt] / Barron, Susan., 2010

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Identifier: CC-51128-72213
Scope and Contents

The artist writes, "It is the final drawing (7th) precipitating and thus 'illustrating' the prose piece 'Jamaica Mistake,' the 1994 accounting of the actual events of the seven days of Creation as previously misrepresented and whitewashed in the book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible." The collaged German text in the lower left corner, from "Almansor" by Heinrich Heine reads "Wo man Bucher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen." Colloquially translated by Baron in her correspondence: " Where one burns books, one will eventually incinerate people." The drawing of an open faced book in left upper corner is written in Hebrew micrography. This print was exhibited in an exhibition of Barron's drawings at Printworks Gallery in Chicago from May 21 to July 3, 2010. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

[Untitled: wo man Bucher Verbrennt] / Barron, Susan., 1991 - 1994

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Identifier: CC-34546-36245
Scope and Contents

The artist writes, "It is the final drawing (7th) precipitating and thus 'illustrating' the prose piece 'Jamaica Mistake,' the 1994 accounting of the actual events of the seven days of Creation as previously misrepresented and whitewashed in the book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible." The collaged German text in the lower left corner, from "Almansor" by Heinrich Heine reads "wo man Bucher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen." Colloquially translated by Barron in her correspondence: " Where one burns books, one will eventually incinerate people." The drawing of an open faced book in left upper corner is written in Hebrew micrography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991 - 1994

[Untitled] / X-Communication., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-00185-193
Scope and Contents

X-Communication aka Lou Acierno and Cherie Weitzner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993