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Political poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 218 Collections and/or Records:

Kriwet Stars: Band 1, 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-61487-10004002
Scope and Contents

This is one of three volumes that reproduces Kriwet's scrapbook of images along with some collages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Kriwet Stars: Band 2, 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-61485-10004000
Scope and Contents

This is one of three volumes that reproduces Kriwet's scrapbook of images along with some collages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Kriwet Stars: Band 3, 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-62385-8008
Scope and Contents

This is one of three volumes that reproduces Kriwet's scrapbook of images along with some collages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Laments, 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-49678-70731
Scope and Contents

The texts printed here are reproductions of original drawings for the inscriptions on stone sarcophagi in the exhibition. The book is also part of a videotape presentation with the same title, the combination also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Lasciate Ogni Speranza... , 1987

 Item — Folder 61: [Barcode: 31858072537958]
Identifier: CC-12900-13191
Scope and Contents

This admonishment in Italian by the Saint-Just Vigilantes means in English, "Abandon every hope to you that enter!" It refers to the Strathclyde tax collectors with whom Finlay had a major dispute. This print appeared in two versions, printed in red and in black; this version is printed in black; the other version in red is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

L'Escalade, 1973

 Item — Folder 20: [Barcode: 31858072459799]
Identifier: CC-19776-20163
Scope and Contents

The title in English means to scale over. The text consists of a repetition of the words, morte and death over a Manchester Guardian newspaper image of The Communist leader, Brezhnev whispering into the ear of President Nixon. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Lettre de Cachet / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1981

 Item — Folder 36: [Barcode: 31858072459963]
Identifier: CC-12446-12673
Scope and Contents

The title printed in red is on a reproduction of the Scottish Arts Council stationery and is captioned "Souvenirs of the French Revolution." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Logo for..., 1984

 Item — Box 621: [Barcode: 31858072461084]
Identifier: CC-18104-18476
Scope and Contents

The cards depict a logo for the Activist, Cultivated, Confused, and Dispossessed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Luftwaffe after Mondrian , 1976

 Item — Folder 61: [Barcode: 31858072537958]
Identifier: CC-12431-12658
Scope and Contents

This image is adapted from an early Mondrian abstracted painting and depicts crosses of various sizes and shadings that act as a metaphor for the cross on Luftwaffe airplanes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

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

 Item — Box 3: [Barcode: 31858072463593]
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

MCCARTHY/C ED 912 Posters (No Series, No. 8): Telegram from Vietnam, 1967

 Item — Folder 26: [Barcode: 31858072459856]
Identifier: CC-14144-14449
Scope and Contents

The image of American fighting soldiers has been over-printed with the US Army death notification telegram forms. Signature of the previous owner, Bob Cobbing, is on the verso. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

McGrotty and Ludmilla, 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-42815-44855
Scope and Contents

The theme of this novel is a parody of the making of a British prime minister modeled after Margaret Thatcher. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Monument to Television Chernobyl, 1992

 Item — Box 139: [Barcode: 31858072457926]
Identifier: CC-03577-3641
Scope and Contents

Chernobyl refers to a city in Russia in which a major nuclear accident took place. Rabascall has depicted the event by presenting the city as an ancient pyramid with four television receivers and a satellite dish on its top and letters covered with sand falling in a disorderly arrangement down the slopes of the pyramid. The latter might signify the initial concealment of the magnitude of this disaster by the Soviet government. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Morally Superior Products / Rothenberg, Erika., 1983

 Item — Box 624: [Barcode: 31858073143889]
Identifier: CC-40994-42973
Scope and Contents

This book deals with a feminist take on media advertising as depicted in cartoon-like drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983