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Political poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1444 Collections and/or Records:

Artist's & Eccentric Books On / Grayson R ; Hutchins E ; Perkins S., 1993

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Identifier: CC-26670-27140
Scope and Contents

Exhibition dealing with HIV virus was curated by Tom Trusky. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Artist's & Eccentric Books On / Tom Trusky, curator ; Abeles K ; Chance K ; Grayson R ; Hutchins E ; Perkins S ; Shapiro N., 1993

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Identifier: CC-26602-27072
Scope and Contents

This exhibition focused on artist books dealing with the theme of AIDS and was curated by Tom Trusky. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Arts diary / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1988

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Identifier: CC-57803-10001055
Scope and Contents

Deals with Finlay's legal action against the French government because the French press claimed Finlay was an anti-semite and Nazi sympathiser. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Arts Magazine. No.4/Dec / Allen T ; Chashnik IG., 1987

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Identifier: CC-25085-25538
Scope and Contents

Craig Adcock's essay "New Works in Terry Allen's Youth in Asia Series" analyzes and illustrates the artist's installations, pictures and poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Arts Review. No.23/Nov / Piech PP ; Baxter G., 1978

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Identifier: CC-25118-25571
Scope and Contents

Includes review of Taurus Press activities by Rosemary Simmons. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

At the Bottom of the River / Kincaid, Jamaica., 1992

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Identifier: CC-40323-42294
Scope and Contents

Glenn Ligon selected a line from the story "Blackness" in this book for his painting held by the Sackner Archive that repeatedly reads "The blackness cannot be separated from me but often I can stand outside it." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

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

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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

Auch Ich War In Arkadien / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1978

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Identifier: CC-12036-12259
Scope and Contents

The title translated to English: 'Things were even worse than this in Arcady.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Aux Hommes: you can no longer agree to live in a world / Chopin, Henri., 1969

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Identifier: CC-18690-19063
Scope and Contents

This is an intense political/anti-religious poem decrying extremists in the world that Chopin lists in the poem and characterized them by the statement, "IT IS FORBIDDEN to be the objects of imbeciles: catholicsprotestantsbuddhistmaoiststalinistsocialists...whohaveall agreed to destroy us." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969