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Picture poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

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Capital, n. A republican crown / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Burckhardt, Lucius., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-13005-13297
Scope and Contents

The image is a hat in the style worn during the French revolution placed on top of a basket decorated with flowers. Finlay captions the image with a quote from Gerd Neumann's book, "Callimachus" (1981). "Seen in this way, the lost CAPITAL, is an envoy; a parody of the now solely burlesque treatment of history in this post-modernism and, as a consequence, a double negation as well, yet without the desirable positive change in values, at least from the perspective of making history." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981