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Political poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 272 Collections and/or Records:

3 Banners / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-12393-12619
Scope and Contents

Depicts three scythes with same handle but different blades, viz., a lightening bolt that evolves to a sickle from left to right. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

3 Columns / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Lovegrove, Catherine., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-12512-12739
Scope and Contents

Depicts three columns with camouflage markings. The caption deals with contemporary Architectural critical beliefs in constructing columns, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

3 Dates / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-12209-12433
Dates: 1990
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

4 Blades / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-11807-12026
Dates: 1986
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

4 Posters Against the Scottish Arts Council: Concilivm Artivum Delendvm Est , 1982

 Item — Folder 61: [Barcode: 31858072537958]
Identifier: CC-58214-10001468
Dates: 1982
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

4 Posters Against the Scottish Arts Council: Mors Concilio Artivum , 1982

 Item — Folder 61: [Barcode: 31858072537958]
Identifier: CC-58213-10001467
Dates: 1982
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

4 Posters Against the Scottish Arts Council: Pax-Tvgvriis Bellvm-Conc Artivm , 1987

 Item — Folder 61: [Barcode: 31858072537958]
Identifier: CC-58216-10001470
Dates: 1987
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

4 Posters Against the Scottish Arts Council: Pereant Tyranni Nvmmari , 1982

 Item — Folder 61: [Barcode: 31858072537958]
Identifier: CC-58215-10001469
Dates: 1982
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

10 Sentences / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-35260-36994
Scope and Contents

An aphorism is printed on each page, e.g., The pine is the estuary of the oak. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets

1794 / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-11822-12041
Scope and Contents

This is a "Space Poem" after Gael Turnbull. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

1794 / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Jo., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-11072-11287
Scope and Contents

Depicts a flowering wildrose plant, a symbol used in the French Republican calendar that was established in 1794. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

A Book of Wild Flowers / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Hincks, Gary., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-12650-12882
Scope and Contents

Published on Christmas day 1994. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

A Definition for Michel Blum, Ambiguous, n. / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-12170-12394
Scope and Contents

Blum was involved in the decision to reject Finlay's proposed commission for the city of Paris. The poem reads, "Ambiguous, n., of doubtful meaning. OF DOUBTFUL MEANING." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

A dream is always the sentiment of a truth that exists no more / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Curwin, Kerstin., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-11074-11289
Scope and Contents

This depicts a photograph by Carwin of a bust of Saint-Just. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

A List in Place of an Exhibition / Heart Fine Art ; Apollinaire G ; Art & Language ; Barry R ; Beuys J ; Boltanski C ; Boetti A ; Broodthaers M ; Brouwn S ; Byars JL ; Ray M ; Ernst M ; Finlay IH ; Huebler D ; Kawara O ; Magritte R ; Matta-Clark G ; Nash J ; Morgan E ; Ruppersberg A ; Soupault P ; Vostell W ; Weiner L., 2003

 Item
Identifier: CC-41905-43900
Dates: 2003
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs

A Litany a Requiem / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-11775-11994
Dates: 1981
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets

A Modest Hero / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-12092-12316
Scope and Contents

The image depicts the Arrosoir (Watering-can) among flowers, the name of the day in the Republican calendar that the Robespierrists were gullotined during the French revolution. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

A One-Word Poem for the Ladies of Art Press / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-12142-12366
Scope and Contents

The one word is "knitters!" and is a slur at Finlay's critics in Paris who were disturbed by his proposed commission for the city of Paris that compared Nazism to the French revolution. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

A Preface by Stephen Bann for the Exhibition 29 May - 5 July 1986 / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Bann S., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-11749-11967
Scope and Contents

This catalogue consists entirely of a critical essay by Stephen Bann on Finlay's works dealing with the French Revolution. The cover is red paper stock, the end papers are blue paper stock, and the text is printed on white paper stock, e.g., the French tricolor flag. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs

A Proposal for the Celebration of the Bicentenary of the French Revolution / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-10985-11198
Scope and Contents The proposal printed in large red letters on the inside of the card reads, "A Revolution." Roe & Moore WEB 2016 for "A collection of letters and cuttings relating to the cancelled commission for a garden to commemorate the bi-centenary of the French revolution. From the collection of Douglas Maxwell" priced the collection at $836 thst included a single typed, signed letter by Finlay thereby valuing a signed Finlay letter between $400-$500. A typed letter from Ian Hamilton Finlay, signed Ian ink, dated 29.5.88 on his Little Sparta/Raspberry Republic headed paper. Gives an outline of the whole affair and denoujnces his detractors in pungent language; 'One also wonders whether these people have ever encountered an actual anti-Semite or Nazi. Sue and I have worked hard, and endured much; for the last thirty years; to achieve what we have To be denounced by people who are relatively youthful, who have never been hungry, who have incomes and security and whose lives have been-in...
Dates: 1989
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

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