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Political poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1446 Collections and/or Records:

Aggressive School of Cultural Workers / Pawson, Mark., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-04430-4513
Scope and Contents

The duplicates are printed in different colors/ -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Agit Poem #2 - The Demonstration / Dixon, Bob., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-15714-16043
Scope and Contents

Poem depicts a political demonstration against the establishment. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Agitated Images: John Heartfield & German Photomontage 1920-1938 / Heartfeld J., 2007

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Identifier: CC-47137-49877
Scope and Contents

This folded pamphlet has one page of critical text and unfolded a reproduced Heartfield propoganda poster. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

A.I.D.. No.6 / Hirschman J., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-25824-26284
Scope and Contents

Jack Hirschman translated two of the poems in this issue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Amazonica N.3 (Mini-Conto) / De Araujo, Avelino., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-36525-38326
Scope and Contents

The theme of this poem deals with Brazil's rain forest. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

America A History in Verse: Volume 2: 1940-1961 / Sanders, Edward., 2000

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Identifier: CC-36674-38488
Scope and Contents

Sanders has written a clear history of the United States from 1940 - 1961 in blank verse interposed with a slight amount of visual poetics.There are 300 copies of the hard cover edition and an unspecified number of soft cover copies. Of these 300 copies, 125 were numbered and signed by Sanders (current copy) and 26 copies in boards by Earle Gray were lettered and signed by Sanders (also held by the Sackner Archive). In these copies, images are printed on thr front and back covers. A dust jacket was not issued, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

America A History in Verse: Volume 2: 1940-1961 / Sanders, Edward., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-36675-38489
Scope and Contents

Sanders has written a clear history of the United States from 1940 - 1961 in blank verse interposed with a slight amount of visual poetics.There are 300 copies of the hard cover edition and an unspecified number of soft cover copies. Of these 300 copies, 125 were numbered and signed by Sanders (also held by Sackner Archive) and 26 copies in boards by Earle Gray were lettered and signed by Sanders (current copy). In these copies, images are printed on the front and back covers. A dust jacket was not issued, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

America A History in Verse: Volume 2: 1940-1961 / Sanders, Edward., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-36676-38490
Scope and Contents

Sanders has written a clear history of the United States from 1940 - 1961 in blank verse interposed with a slight amount of visual poetics.There are 300 copies of the hard cover edition and an unspecified number of soft cover copies. Of these 300 copies, 125 were numbered and signed by Sanders (also held by Sackner Archive) and 26 copies in boards by Earle Gray were lettered and signed by Sanders (current copy). In these copies, images are printed on the front and back covers. A dust jacket was not issued, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Amnesty, 1977

 Item — Folder 10: [Barcode: 31858069877912]
Identifier: CC-26230-26693
Scope and Contents

This print is from the Prisoners of Conscience series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

An Early Picasso / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Picasso P., 1994

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Identifier: CC-12600-12832
Scope and Contents

The cover of the leaflet is printed on blue paper, the unbound page on rose colored paper. This references Picasso's Blue and Rose periods of painting around the turn of the century. The poem is taken from the French revolutionary J.L. David's Instructions for the Festival of the Supreme Being, 1794 in which he describes his vision, ...Mothers will hold bouquets of roses in their hands, and girls will carry baskets filled with flowers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

An Intrusion (Self-Applied) / Sharshal, Stan., 1998

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Identifier: CC-30026-31420
Scope and Contents

This work was begun in Winter 1988 and completed posthumously in Winter 1998. The main image on the label appears to be rows of wooden coffins. The piece is an HIV metaphor. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

An Uninviting Garden / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1996

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Identifier: CC-35198-36932
Scope and Contents

This card depicts two colored photographs of a painting of the same country estate. The top one that is captioned, "An uninviting garden" is landscaped with plants. The bottom one that has been stripped of almost all of its landscaping and with a fence in front is captioned, "The same garden, supposedly improved by Strathclyde Region with the support of the Scottish Arts Council." The poem is a metaphor for Finlay's conflict over taxation of his gallery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996