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Political poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1449 Collections and/or Records:

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

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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

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