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Political poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1469 Collections and/or Records:

An Uninviting Garden / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1996

 Item
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

Angst Vor der Killer-Hitze / Renate Varnhorn., 2001

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Identifier: CC-36680-38494
Scope and Contents

The title, also the newspaper headline, is machine stitched in two repeating rows with the end threads left intentionally long as part of the design. The newspaper section is folded in half. The title translates to "anxiety becomes a killer during a heat spell." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Angst Vor der Killer-Hitze / Renate Varnhorn., 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-36680-38494
Scope and Contents

The title, also the newspaper headline, is machine stitched in two repeating rows with the end threads left intentionally long as part of the design. The newspaper section is folded in half. The title translates to "anxiety becomes a killer during a heat spell." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Antiuniversity of London / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Farquharson R., 1972

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Identifier: CC-48312-69337
Scope and Contents This piece is based upon the slash-dash-bracket alphabet by Robin Farquharson as modified by Dom Sylvester Houedard. As recounted by Frater Choronzon at a meeting of the Chaos Society in 1990, the late Dr Robin Farquharson was one of the most gifted individuals it has ever been my privilege to know. His doctorate for original work on the Theory of Voting ('psephology' as it's called in the trade) was awarded by the University of Oxford in 1958, and he won the Monograph Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for related work in 1961. At the time when I met him in 1968 he had recently been stripped of his post as a Senior Research Fellow ('Don') in Management Studies at Churchill College, Cambridge. I first encountered him at a meeting of the 'Anti-University'. This was a loose knit structure which operated from a series of short-term addresses. Its primary function was to promote serious academic work into subject areas which were considered to be neglected by...
Dates: 1972

Apartment Number / Weiner H ; Buren D ; MacLennan T., 1981

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Identifier: CC-29586-30956
Scope and Contents

Six artists transformed an apartment in a Toronto High rise building in a sequence of exhibitions. This catalogue documents the space. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Aphrodite of the Terror / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; de Valdivia, Marco., 1987

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Identifier: CC-12116-12340
Scope and Contents

The card depicts a black and white photograph of a sculpture of Aphrodite with her right arm covering her breasts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Apollo and Daphne (after Bernini) / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Costley, Ron., 1977

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Identifier: CC-58211-10001464
Scope and Contents

This is a poster of the same image of the print in the Sackner Archive printed for the Cambridge Poetry Festival at the Kettle's Yard Gallery. The bottom edge contains details of the exhibition. Finlay cites two references to this image as follows: Ovid's Metamorphoses and Wittkower's The Sculptures of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Historical Research Unit, Uniforms of the SS. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Apollo and Daphne and Laurus / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1992

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Identifier: CC-12371-12597
Scope and Contents

These three prints depict the individual figures in the print Apollo and Daphne: Design for a Wall, 1992. Apollo is depicted in a red symbolizing strength whereas Daphne is printed in camouflaged green indicating uncertainty of pastoral serenity. Laurus depicts a silhouette of a green tree. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Apollo and Daphne: Design for a Wall (1) / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Costley, Ron; Hincks, Gary., 1992

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Identifier: CC-12375-12601
Scope and Contents

In this version of the print the figures of Apollo in red and Daphne in green are combined into a green tree. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Apollo and Daphne: Design for a Wall (2) / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Costley, Ron; Hincks, Gary., 1992

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Identifier: CC-58404-10001621
Scope and Contents

In this version of the print the figures of Apollo and Daphne are outlined in black and are combined into an outlined tree all against the image of a drawn black brick wall. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Apollo in Strathclyde / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Alexander, Marius., 1986

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Identifier: CC-12099-12323
Scope and Contents

This card depicts a black and white photograph of a field in Strathclyde near Finlay's home. It is captioned, The wine-red sea, the turnip-marbled field. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986