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Political poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Agentzia: Paris Mai 1968/Revolution. No.3 / Jochen Gerz ; Jean-Francois Bory ; A. Hubschmid., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-26223-26686
Scope and Contents

This issue documents events of the May 1968 revolution in Paris through reproductions of newspaper clippings and photographs. The envelope is designed in the form of a record jacket. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Der Baum der schweigenden Mehrheit / The Tree of the Silent Majority [Heil] / Gerz, Jochen., 1967

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Identifier: CC-27437-28485
Scope and Contents

This work is reproduced in Annoncenteil Arbeiten auf/mit Papier, Luchterhand, 1971. The poem is in the shape of a tree with the word Heil repeated in different typefaces and dimensions. The trunk of this tree is the printed title of the piece. Klonsky in his book "Speaking Pictures" titles this poem, "The Tree of the Sient Majority." It is designated No.497 in Gerz's Catalogue Raisonne Volume III. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Res Publica: The Public Works 1968-1999 / Gerz, Jochen ; Hapkemeyer A., 1999

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Identifier: CC-33700-35362
Scope and Contents

This catalogue was edited by Andreas Hapkemeyer and Marion Hohlfeldt who also contributed critical essays on Gerz's works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

These Words Are My Blood / Gerz, Jochen., 1971

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Identifier: CC-27452-28500
Scope and Contents

The title statement, translated into three languages, appears on a photograph of a video monitor in capital letters with Jochen Gerz's name on the bottom. The translucent overlay has handwritten instructions for reproduction of this image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971