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Political poetry

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 262 Collections and/or Records:

Monument to Television Chernobyl, 1992

 Item — Box 139: [Barcode: 31858072457926]
Identifier: CC-03577-3641
Scope and Contents

Chernobyl refers to a city in Russia in which a major nuclear accident took place. Rabascall has depicted the event by presenting the city as an ancient pyramid with four television receivers and a satellite dish on its top and letters covered with sand falling in a disorderly arrangement down the slopes of the pyramid. The latter might signify the initial concealment of the magnitude of this disaster by the Soviet government. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Most alarming is the growing resistance to pesticides, 1993

 Item — Box 612: [Barcode: 31858072460987]
Identifier: CC-05671-5778

Neville Chamberlain's Chimera , 1979

 Item — Box 319: [Barcode: 31858072490786]
Identifier: CC-26229-26692
Scope and Contents

Contains one poem to the page printed in red and blue inks. the author provides the sources for the poems at the end of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Now the Names of the Twelve Are These / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Nash, John R.., 1987

 Item — Folder 35: [Barcode: 31858072459948]
Identifier: CC-12360-12586
Scope and Contents

The names are a mixture of the Apostles and leaders of the French Revolution. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

O Olho Nu, 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-35710-37461
Scope and Contents

This book contains the work of De Araujo from 1979 to 1989, including experimental and autobiographical pieces among others. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Objections, 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-29677-31052
Scope and Contents

The pages consist of heavy papercard stock onto which are printed a single visual or concrete poem. The pages consist of heavy papercard stock onto which are printed a single visual or concrete poem. The book deals with photographs of objects and collages made by Diacono that feature sexual and political themes. For example, these photographs include letraset textural dildos and collages dealing with sexual intercourse using words and neologisms. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Obras / Works 1976 - 2008, 2008

 Item
Identifier: CC-49614-70665
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive held the original drawing (donated to PAMM) for the photocopied print depicted from the drawing "P4R" in this catalogue on page 75. In an interview of Ferrari, it is mentioned that he has recently began to produce limited editioned high quality photocopies and heliograph copies of his original drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

O.U.R. Plan , 1961

 Item — Folder 63: [Barcode: 31858072537974]
Identifier: CC-18762-19136
Scope and Contents

This poster, laid out with a dense packing of text, is a plea to raise money for the preservation of the worldwide environment. The map of the world is divided into six propeller-like spokes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1961

Pastoral , 1996

 Item — Folder 62: [Barcode: 31858072537966]
Identifier: CC-34977-36694
Scope and Contents

This is a purely textural work in two colors, each letter of the words alternates as green or blue. This serves as a metaphor for the contrast of liberty and death in the French revolution. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Peace Lesson One, 1982

 Item — Box 271: [Barcode: 31858073143376]
Identifier: CC-21814-22225
Scope and Contents

Consists of plastic gun and flowers with typed inscription on card: a) hold the machine gun, b) insert flowers, c) fire. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Peace Medal, 1974

 Item — Box 147: [Barcode: 31858072458007]
Identifier: CC-03056-3101
Scope and Contents

The artist's answer to "where is the elusive common denominator that will make peace possible?...the word PEACE in virtually every written language." 500 medals were struck in bronze and 50 in gold. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974