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Political poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Advertising Fascism / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Millet C., 1987

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Identifier: CC-12158-12382
Scope and Contents

This card reproduces a quote from Catherine Millet, an editor of Art Press in Paris who was strongly against Finlay's commission for the city of Paris because of her perception that Finlay was a Nazi or Nazi sympathizer. Her statement which appeared in Art Press is reprinted on this card, "It is commonplace to remember that Nazi ideology fed on neo-classicism and pantheism." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Basta / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Heartfield J; Millet C., 1988

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Identifier: CC-12169-12393
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The image is a photocollage by Heartfield depicted the Nazi Swatstika formed by four axes. The caption quotes Catherine Millet, editor of Art Press Paris, who was highly critical of Finlay's work for the city of Paris, "I saw a work, I saw Nazi signs carved on it, basta..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Monostitch for the French Election / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Millet C., 1988

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Identifier: CC-12179-12403
Scope and Contents

This is a poetic attack in French on Catherine Millet, Editor of Art Press Paris, for her support in the rejection of Finlay's commission for the city of Paris. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988