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Political poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Egg Series: A Curate's Egg, Imperially Hatched, To be Viewed Landscape / Furnival, John., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-13273-13574
Scope and Contents

Curate is a British term for the assistant to a vicar of the Church of England. The egg shell has been divided into 16 segments, each with a different style of line-drawn hatchings. A lower case letter appears in negative relief on ten of the segments which spells, "excellent." This is a spoof on the British religious tradition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Flight from America, 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-15509-15836
Scope and Contents

John Furnival designed the front and back covers with a concrete poetic theme. This book is stored in Furnival's box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Manifesto: The Future of Futurism [Gotcha] | Curtains for Mrs Thatcher / Furnival, John., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-13295-13596
Scope and Contents

Features mastheads of several newspapers from different countries and fragments of news stories and photographs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

[Nazi Steamroller] / Furnival, John., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-13220-13521
Scope and Contents

A German soldier wearing a Nazi armband is driving a steamroller over a road paved with random numbers (perhaps signifying the victims of the Nazis) as well as numbers of several years of the 20th century. Smoke arising from the engine contains rows of paper cut-out figures going heavenward signifying the holocaust. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

The Dawn of the Age of Leisure , 1975

 Item — Folder 59: [Barcode: 31858072537933]
Identifier: CC-13309-13610
Scope and Contents

The completed text reads, "Wych Countree has the Elm Disease?" The outlines of world-wide countries are flying around a sky with a setting sun as if they were leaves. Four human figures are drawn encased in grids. Stored in Odds & Sods. The duplicate print is matted. Another copy listed seperately was signed by Furnival. This print is depicted in Furnival's "Lost For Words" (2011) page 61. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

The Dawn of the Age of Leisure , 1975

 Item — Folder 59: [Barcode: 31858072537933]
Identifier: CC-13310-13611
Scope and Contents

The completed text reads, "Wych Countree has the Elm Disease?" The outlines of world-wide countries are flying around a sky with a setting sun as if they were leaves. Four human figures are drawn encased in grids. The Archive has three other unsigned copies of this print. This print is depicted in Furnival's "Lost For Words" (2011) page 61. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

The Dawn of the Age of Leisure, 1975

 Item — Folder 59: [Barcode: 31858072537933]
Identifier: CC-34082-35762
Scope and Contents

The completed text reads, "Wych Countree has the Elm Disease?" The outlines of world-wide countries are flying around a sky with a setting sun as if they were leaves. Four human figures are drawn encased in grids. The Archive has two other unsigned copies of this print; this is the only copy that is folded. This print is depicted in Furnival's "Lost For Words" (2011) page 61. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

The Only Good Luddite Is a Dead Luddite , 1963

 Item — Folder 58: [Barcode: 31858072537925]
Identifier: CC-13229-13530
Scope and Contents

Luddites were bands of workers in England (1811-1816) organized to destroy machinery under the belief that its use diminished employment. Ned Luddite, an 18th century Leicestershire worker originated the idea. Furnival depicts a man's body flattened by a Rube Goldberg like machine with numbers streaming from upper pipes of the machine. Stored in Odds & Sods. Depictd in Furnival's "Lost for Words" (2011 page 138. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

[The Road of Excess] / Furnival, John., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-13222-13523
Scope and Contents

The wall text reads, "The road of Excess leads to the Palace of (Wisdom) Willesden. Arbeit Macht Frei!. Shed! Shed! Don't Vote." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970