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Political poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1438 Collections and/or Records:

Wasteland, 1995

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Identifier: CC-44011-46124
Scope and Contents

This exhibition was curated by the Brazilian Sergio Bessa (b.1951) who serves as the Director of the Bronx Museum in NYC. A biography of Bessa appears on David Daniels' Gates of Paradise web site. For this exhibition, Kay Rosen contributed four pages of language poetry and Vic Muniz three pages entitled "Study for Neon." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Watchtowers / Schuller, Brant., 1996

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Identifier: CC-41734-43726
Scope and Contents

The subject is about various antennas and their uses. A circular picture on each page depicts a varient antenna and explanatory texts are printed at the bottom of the pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

We The People: Proposal for an Artwork / Cutler-Shaw, Joyce., 1976

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Identifier: CC-18921-19299
Scope and Contents

This book documents a proposed ice sculpture for the U.S. Capitol building grounds. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

We Won't Play Nature To Your Culture / Kruger, Barbara., 1983

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Identifier: CC-27304-27868
Scope and Contents

Kruger's worded photographs are a contemporary extension of the emblem poems of the 17th & 18th centuries and the more recent picture poems of Kenneth Patchen and Ian Hamilton Finlay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

When I Go / Herms, George., 1972

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Identifier: CC-28510-29789
Scope and Contents

The complete text that reads, "When I go - I'm taking nationalism - and the internal combustion - engine with me" is printed in red over the image of crushed, stained and pierced paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Whitewall of Sound: The Machinery of State - 20th Century U.S. Presidents. No.15 / Jim Clinefelter., 1996

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Identifier: CC-32557-34138
Scope and Contents

Each President is characterized by a photographic reproduction of an industrial metal working machine. The back cover records the following anonymous quote, "every few years, they change one of the gears...but the contraption still runs the wrong way." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

WhiteWalls: Post Wall S. No.32., 1992

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Identifier: CC-00505-517
Scope and Contents

Issue focuses on Eastern European artists and writers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

WhiteWalls: Rants and Raves. No.27/Win., 1991

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Identifier: CC-00619-633
Scope and Contents

Edited by Susan Snodgrass. This issue solely documents performance pieces. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Who's Bitter Now? / Dezso, Andrea., 2008

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Identifier: CC-48137-69160
Scope and Contents

Dezso's illustration is her typical stitching for an article by Larry M. Bartels about the presidential debates. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Wild Hawthorn Weapon Series No.2: Homage to Max Bill / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1974

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Identifier: CC-33001-34622
Scope and Contents

The card depicts a photograph of a military tank with its two cannons pointing upwards, a metaphor for the constructivistic art of Max Bill. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974