Political poetry
Found in 1449 Collections and/or Records:
Waiting On The Golden Time / Rehfeldt, Robert., 1985
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.
Waldemar Is the Venom / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987
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.
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
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.
Waldwachsende Blumen auf den Ehrentempeln Konigsplatz Munchen / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Simig, Pia Maria ; Eyres P., 1993
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.
Wall Stret Wacht Af / Clavin, Hans., 1982
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.
Walls Must Crumble / Depew, Wally., 2000
War is Over! / Lennon, John; Ono, Yoko., 1970
Stored in Yoko Ono box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
War Volume II, 1983
These prints that have a dense text deal with the concerns of a nuclear wall. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Warum Adolf Hitler kein Kunstler geworden ist, 1996
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.
Was ist das Konkrete an einen Gedicht? / Heissenbuttel, Helmut ; Tucholsky K ; Schwitters K ; Holz A., 1969
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.
Was Tun? Mr. Lenin / Rehfeldt, Robert., 1989
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.
Wasteland, 1995
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.
Watch What You Watch / Topel, Andrew., 2009
Watchtowers / Schuller, Brant., 1996
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.
Water-Lilies / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1990
Waters of the Nations: Messages from the World / Cutler-Shaw, Joyce., 1982
We The People: Proposal for an Artwork / Cutler-Shaw, Joyce., 1976
This book documents a proposed ice sculpture for the U.S. Capitol building grounds. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
We Won't Play Nature To Your Culture / Kruger, Barbara., 1983
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.
When I Go / Herms, George., 1972
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.