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Political poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 272 Collections and/or Records:

Nature Is the Devil / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-12167-12391
Scope and Contents

In this card, Finlay interprets Samuel Coleridge statement "Nature is the Devil in a fancy waistcoat" to "Nature is a storm trooper in a camouflage smock." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Nature Is the Devil... / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987

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Identifier: CC-12996-13288
Scope and Contents

Finlay substitutes the words, storm trooper and camouflage smock for the Devil and fancy waistcoat, respectively, in the following quotation from Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Nature is the Devil in a fancy waistcoat." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Neoclassicism Needs You / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1983

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Identifier: CC-12083-12307
Scope and Contents

The image is a sailor in uniform with his hand outstretched as might be depicted in a war poster. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Neoclassicisme Revolutionnaire / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1988

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Identifier: CC-12184-12408
Scope and Contents

The image on the card is a classical pot with a fishnet draped from the top. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Neoclassicisme Revolutionnaire / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1988

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Identifier: CC-12470-12697
Scope and Contents

The image in black and white is of a classical pot with a fishnet draped from the top. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Nuclear Sail / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Andrew, John., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-61283-10003932
Scope and Contents

The image depicts a silhouette of a submarine conning tower. The card was never distributed in commerce. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Of Famous Arcady Ye Are / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Harvey, Michael., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-12068-12292
Scope and Contents

The image depicts an armored tank camouflaged by a garden scene. The title is a quote from John Milton. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Of Famous Arcady Ye Are / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Harvey, Michael., 1977

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Identifier: CC-58212-10001465
Scope and Contents

The image is of a tank in a garden with the quote of John Milton in the shrubbery. One of the copies of the posters has been folded. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Pacific; Type A & B - Board Wargame for Two Players / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Harvey, Michael., 1974 - 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-12787-13071
Scope and Contents

This maquette for the instruction sheet of Pacific in red and black ink was done by Michael Harvey. It was part of the Finlay Archive with the same title also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974 - 1975

Paris Is the Sink of All Vices / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-12185-12409
Scope and Contents

This is a quotation from Jean-Paul Marat as an imagined admonishment to Michel Blum and Yves Hayat for their rejection of Finlay's commission for the city of Paris. The poem reads, "Paris is the sink of all vices. And its inhabitants claim they are free! They should not flatter themselves; to be free it is necessary to have judgement, courage, virtues......" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Pastoral , 1996

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Identifier: CC-34977-36694
Scope and Contents

This is a purely textural work in two colors, each letter of the words alternates as green or blue. This serves as a metaphor for the contrast of liberty and death in the French revolution. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Picabia Series # 1 (Black) / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-12500-12727
Scope and Contents

Includes the epithats "The French Attache is Paper Mache, Art Press is Part Cress, All that Glitters is not Aryan, Parisians Spoil the French, and The League of Rights Intrigues in Tights." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Picabia Series # 1 (Red) / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-12499-12726
Scope and Contents

Includes the epithats "The French Attache is Paper Mache, Art Press is Part Cress, All that Glitters is not Aryan, Parisians Spoil the French, and The League of Rights Intrigues in Tights." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Picabia Series # 2 (Black) / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1988

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Identifier: CC-12491-12718
Scope and Contents

Includes the epithats, "Don't Put All Your Heads in One Basket, Spare the Blade and Spoil the Factions, and Don't Cast Your Revolutions before Swine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Picabia Series (2) / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-12187-12411
Scope and Contents

The listing in Finlay's bibliographies indicates that the series contains three cards but this set has a duplicate, "Spare the Blade..." and is missing "Don't Cast Your Revolution..." On the other hand, another card of lighter stock paper that reproduces a comment on the verso of the cards is not cited in the bibliographies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Picabia Series # 2 (Red) / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1988

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Identifier: CC-12492-12719
Scope and Contents

Includes the epithats, "Don't Put All Your Heads in One Basket, Spare the Blade and Spoil the Factions, and Don't Cast Your Revolutions before Swine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Picpus: 7 - 9 Messidor An II de Republique / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-12940-13232
Scope and Contents

Lists names, ages and occupations of French people who died during days 7-9 of the tenth calendar month of the French Republic, Messidor June 20-July 19. The texts were presumably taken from their tombstones. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Political Corrections: Number 1 / Finlay, Ian hamilton., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-12929-13221
Scope and Contents

Two excerpts, one from a soldier in Hitler's Youth Division and the second from Peter Pan, compare personal thoughts preceding possible death. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995