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Political poetry

 Subject

Staff Only
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 263 Collections and/or Records:

Random Sightings (d.a. has left the building), 1999

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-48658-69690
Scope and Contents

The cover photograph is by Alan Horvath. Includes several poems and polemics against the Vietnam war as handwritten manuscripts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / L / levy, d.a. / Posthumous [1969-2008]

Reap The Sac Faction, 1985

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Finlay, Ian Hamilton: [Barcode: 31858072491461]
Identifier: CC-11920-12143
Scope and Contents

The message deals with enlisting help for Finlay's despute with the local tax collectors. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / F / Finlay, Ian Hamilton

Redbook: A Book of Hours, 1992

 Item — Box 613: [Barcode: 31858072460995]
Identifier: CC-34619-36320
Scope and Contents

This book lists women's names in alphabetical order according to day and time on a daily basis over a year to symbolize the average annual estimate of reported forcible rapes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / Miranda Maher

Rent Free in the East Village, 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-39631-41590
Dates: 1985
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

Revolutionary Poets Brigade Volume 1, 2010

 Item
Identifier: CC-51746-72846
Dates: 2010
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS

Rodney King, 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-29695-291307
Scope and Contents

The main caption of this anti-police state drawing, printed in large blue, eraser stamped letters reads, "Rodney King Resists Arrest." The latter refers to the unwarranted police beating of Rodney King in Los Angeles, who did not resist arrest, that was taken unbeknownst to the police on video and aired to the American public. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES / Oversized

S.A.C./A.C.G.B./K.G.B., 1978

 Item — Box 305: [Barcode: 31858072460953]
Identifier: CC-12415-12642
Scope and Contents

The acronym signifies Arts Council of Great Britain, Scottish Arts Council, and the K.G.B. (Russian secret police). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / Ian Hamilton Finlay

Saint-Just Composing the Republican Institutions / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1992

 Item — Folder 36: [Barcode: 31858072459963]
Identifier: CC-12333-12559
Dates: 1992
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES / TO BE PROCESSED / Ian Hamilton Finlay

Saint-Just Sundial Badge, 1981

 Item — Box 147: [Barcode: 31858072458007]
Identifier: CC-12414-12641
Scope and Contents

Depicts sundial with the caption "Too Many Laws Too Few Examples." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / Ian Hamilton Finlay

Sangue Misto, 1985

 Item — Box 324: [Barcode: 31858072490901]
Identifier: CC-21840-22251
Scope and Contents

Printed on blue paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

Sangue Misto, 1985

 Item — Box 324: [Barcode: 31858072490901]
Identifier: CC-21652-22063
Scope and Contents

Printed on pink paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

Sangue Misto , 1985

 Item — Box 324: [Barcode: 31858072490901]
Identifier: CC-21653-22064
Scope and Contents

Printed on yellow paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

SCHWARZ ED 912 Posters (No Series, No. 1): No Man's Land, 1967

 Item — Folder 27: [Barcode: 31858072459864]
Identifier: CC-14187-14493
Scope and Contents

Arturo Schwarz, an Egyptian Jew, published the later works of Marcel Duchamp and was one of the great collectors of Surrealist and Dada books; this collection was donated to the Isreal Museum in Jerusalem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES / TO BE PROCESSED / ED 912 / No Series

Scythe/Lightening Flash , 1990

 Item — Folder 62: [Barcode: 31858072537966]
Identifier: CC-12503-12730
Scope and Contents

Depicts image of scythes whose blades becomes transformed into a lightening flash, a metaphor for the French revolution. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

Second Hand zur Unsterblichkeit, 1994

 Item — Box 614: [Barcode: 31858072461001]
Identifier: CC-02893-2937
Dates: 1994
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

Seeing Red, 2008

 Item — Box 272: [Barcode: 31858072460938]
Identifier: CC-48958-69996
Dates: 2008
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

Selected concepts, actions and rubber stamp projects in form of artists' books and other publications 1970-1984, 2003

 Item
Identifier: CC-42750-44789
Scope and Contents

The book and the compact discs serve as a database for Perneczky's works. In a work entitled "Very Alternative Art, 1981," Perneczky stamped the word "shit" in eight different languages on toilet tissues. This kind of activity was later used for the more contemporary assembling magazine "Wipe," that is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS / BOOKS (moved to alphabetical shelves)

September 11, 2001 , 2001

 Item — Folder 49: [Barcode: 31858072537834]
Identifier: CC-38712-40622
Scope and Contents

This is exceptionally powerful print that commemorates the September 11, 2001 destruction of the World Trade Center Towers in NYC. It was first published in the book, "The Visualised Page" (2001), an assembling held by the Sackner Archive. The image accompanies that record. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

Sex Love, 1990

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Depew, Wally: [Barcode: 31858072491388]
Identifier: CC-55179-38965
Dates: 1990
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / Oversized Wally Depew

Silent Poem / Baroni, Vittore., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-22333-22756
Dates: 1989
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / Vittore Baroni