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Political poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Attack Letter-Dart / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Sloan, Nicholas., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-12152-12376
Scope and Contents This card, folded with the shape of an arrow, marks the second anniversary of Strathclyde region's tax collectors on Finlay's Garden Temple. The caption printed boldly in red along an inner fold, reads, "Every Goal Negates. Ludwig Feuerbach." Wikipedia: Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach (July 28, 1804 "“ September 13, 1872) was a German philosopher and anthropologist best known for his book The Essence of Christianity, which provided a critique of Christianity which strongly influenced generations of later thinkers, including both Karl Marx and Frederich Engels. Feuerbach was the fourth son of the eminent jurist Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach, brother of mathematician Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach and uncle of painter Anselm Feuerbach. An associate of Left Hegelian circles, Feuerbach advocated for liberalism, atheism and materialism. Many of his philosophical writings offered a critical analysis of religion. His thought was influential in the development of dialectical materialism,...
Dates: 1983

Project For A Monument To Saint-Just / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Sloan, Nicholas., 1985

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Identifier: CC-11996-12219
Scope and Contents

Instructions are provided for cutting and folding to form a paper pyramid. The epithets applied to Saint-Just by a contemporary appear on the sculpture, viz., beautiful, fanatical, and dictatorial along with his birth and death dates, 1967-1794. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Saint-Just Cube / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Sloan, Nicholas., 1986

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Identifier: CC-12520-12747
Scope and Contents

The print offers instructions for a cut-out of the six sides, each with a letter to read St Just. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Shock Tropes for Little Sparta / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Sloan, Nicholas., 1984

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Identifier: CC-11922-12145
Scope and Contents

A poster that exhorts Finlay friends to help in his despute with the regional tax collectors. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

The Present Order Is the Disorder of the Future / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Sloan, Nicholas., 1983

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Identifier: CC-12077-12301
Scope and Contents

This card provides instructions for cutting out the words of this poem that have been carved on stones. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983