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Political poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Beijing / Richard Kelly Tipping., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-01676-1712
Scope and Contents

The text on the sculpture that reads "Machine Guns Against Jeans And Sneakers" is set vertically to suggest Chinese language. The theme deals with the peaceful student and worker uprising against the Chinese Communist government in Tennamon square, Beijing which was militarily suppressed. The image of this work is reproduced in C'est mon dada No.14, 2007. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Beijing / Tipping, Richard Kelly., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-01684-1720
Scope and Contents

This is a photograph of the sculpture held by the Sackner Archive. The text reads "machine guns against jeans and sneakers." It is carved into the stone which is positioned vertically like Chinese text as a reference to Tennimen Square. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Multiple Pleasures / Tipping, Richard Kelly., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-34307-36002
Scope and Contents

This folder reproduces in postcard format, "Machine Guns against Jeans and Sneakers," "Caution: There is No Avant-Garde," "Expressive Mail," "Sea Threw," and "Poetry Mail," works held in the original by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Re/form: art - law - justice / Tipping R., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-30730-32175
Scope and Contents

This exhibition from the Griffith University art collection was organized into categories such as Indigenous Australians, Women and the Law, Gay and Lesbian Rights, Legislating for the Environment and Copyright and Intellectual Property. Four works by Richard Tipping are exhibited in the last category including "Meat Mart" that is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998