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Political poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1438 Collections and/or Records:

Violent Crime / Crandall, Diane., 1994

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Identifier: CC-20563-20960
Scope and Contents

This book deals with the feelings that a woman might experience after her husband attempts to murder her. The presentation makes use of concrete poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Vocabulaire: Mucid , 1989

 Item — Folder 45: [Barcode: 31858072460060]
Identifier: CC-14551-14862
Scope and Contents

Collage element is newspaper with stock market quotations. The rubberstamped text consists of adjectives of the word "mucus," presumbably signifying de Charmoy's perception of the stock market. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Volantini Italiani: Frammenti stoici del XX secolo / Echaurren, Pablo, editor ; Marinetti FT., 1997

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Identifier: CC-37151-38994
Scope and Contents

This book documents examples of the political history of Italy with posters and text that include Futurism, Fascism, Nudism, Communism, Rock Music, WWII, and the Vietnamese War among others. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Voodoo for Anti-Communist Tourists, 1991

 Item — Box 317: [Barcode: 31858072490844]
Identifier: CC-26025-26487
Scope and Contents

The language poem by Andrews is illustrated by Cobbing's photocopied distortions of the conventionally printed Andrew's poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Vote / Corral, Rodrigo., 2005

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Identifier: CC-43361-45422
Scope and Contents

The word VOTE is drawn in simulated Arabic characters to illustrate an article on the eve of the first vote in Iraq in more than 60 years. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

Waiting On The Golden Time / Rehfeldt, Robert., 1985

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Identifier: CC-62597-47759
Scope and Contents

A head shot of Rehfeldt is depicted with the title written across his face - waiting for the Berlin wall to collapse! -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Waldemar Is the Venom / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987

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Identifier: CC-12145-12369
Scope and Contents

The text on this card reads, "Waldemir is the venom in the liberal snake." Waldemar refers to Waldemar Januszczack, the art critic of the Guardian newspaper, who was opposed to Finlay's commission proposal for the city of Paris. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Waldsee, 1944 / Kruger L ; Borocz A ; Kentridge W ; Nicastri J ; Silverberg RA ; Wurth A ; Appelbroog I ; Avadenka L ; Chicago J ; Logemann J ; Podwal M., 2005

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Identifier: CC-52415-73540
Scope and Contents

This exhibition was co-curated by Alma on Dobbin (N.Y.) and Laura Kruger. The exhibition was done in tribute to 600,000 Hungarian Jews who perished in the Holocaust. Waldsee was a deception by the Nazis as a ficticious place from where postcards of lies describing their happiness as dictated by the Nazis were sent to other Jews but in reality were written before being killed in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

Waldwachsende Blumen auf den Ehrentempeln Konigsplatz Munchen / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Simig, Pia Maria ; Eyres P., 1993

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Identifier: CC-29709-31084
Scope and Contents

The book begins with a chronology listing Hitler's rise to power and the relation of the building in Munich called Ehrentempel. The end papers consist of a photograph of the building. The right sided pages depict drawings of wild flowers, the left sided the names of the flowers. The pamphlet, written by Patrick Eyres in German, is a critical text about Finlay's work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Wall Stret Wacht Af / Clavin, Hans., 1982

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Identifier: CC-17115-17473
Scope and Contents

The same photographic image of a Vietnamese(?) man and woman viewing the corpses of two others lying in a pit are repeated on each page with a different caption. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

War is Over! / Lennon, John; Ono, Yoko., 1970

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Identifier: CC-07127-7267
Scope and Contents

Stored in Yoko Ono box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

War Volume II, 1983

 Item — Folder 78: [Barcode: 31858072538378]
Identifier: CC-54745-245891
Scope and Contents

These prints that have a dense text deal with the concerns of a nuclear wall. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Warum Adolf Hitler kein Kunstler geworden ist, 1996

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Identifier: CC-27406-28449
Scope and Contents

The title of this book in English is "Why Adolf Hitler has not become an Artist." Each of the contributing artists/poets answers this question with one or more drawings or poems. For example, Olbrich writes a sentence,"? -- It's a true story." Garnier provides three ink drawings of caricatures of Hitler that focus on his prominent facial features, his moustache and hair swept to one side. They are captioned, espressionismus, Hil Heitler, and entartete Kunst. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Was ist das Konkrete an einen Gedicht? / Heissenbuttel, Helmut ; Tucholsky K ; Schwitters K ; Holz A., 1969

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Identifier: CC-33458-35100
Scope and Contents

In this book, Heissenbuttel attempts to make a case for the nonvisual, concrete elements in poems that antedated contemporary, concrete poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Was Tun? Mr. Lenin / Rehfeldt, Robert., 1989

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Identifier: CC-03166-3215
Scope and Contents

The title is written across a photographic reproduction of a bronze statue of Lenin made by N.A. Andrejew in 1932. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989