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Aux Hommes: you can no longer agree to live in a world, 1969

 Item — Box: Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Chopin, Henri
Identifier: CC-18690-19063

Scope and Contents

This is an intense political/anti-religious poem decrying extremists in the world that Chopin lists in the poem and characterized them by the statement, "IT IS FORBIDDEN to be the objects of imbeciles: catholicsprotestantsbuddhistmaoiststalinistsocialists...whohaveall agreed to destroy us." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1969

Creator

Extent

0 See container summary (1 maquette + page (typed, handwritten additions, ink colored)) ; 26 x 21 cm

Language of Materials

English

Physical Location

Original Sackner location: shelf binder second bedroom alcove

Custodial History

The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, on loan from Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.

General

Published: Ingatestone, England : [Publisher not identified]. Signed by: H Chopin (l.r.- recto). Nationality of creator: French. General: About 1 total copies. General: Added by: CONV; updated by: MARVIN.

Repository Details

Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository

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