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Aphorism

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 330 Collections and/or Records:

Poem for May Day, 2000 / Young, Karl., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-34644-36345
Scope and Contents

This broadside consists of a concrete colored poem composed of aphorisms from the Greek poet, Corinna and the labor activist, Joe Hill. Karl Young contributes an explanation on the verso related to workers' rights. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Postfluxpostbooklet: Augenblick. No.5 / Luce Fierens., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-04590-4677
Scope and Contents

First published in 1989 and reprinted in 1991. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Private Tutor. No.1/Aug / Simon Cutts, editor., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-37537-39394
Scope and Contents

The text of this broadside begins, TO THE YOUNG WOULD-BE POET, FIRST SOME WARNINGS. NEVER Trust the heart - AVOID Whenever possible the the photographs of other poets even though you may admire them. NEVER Expect to discover a fruitful relationship with more than three other poets. Never Try to make people ashamed of thenselves. Never Try to make people respect you. Never Try to appear harmless and good. Never Try to influence politicians. Never Try to define poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Project for a Monument to Ludwig Feuerbach / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1986

 Item — Folder 36: [Barcode: 31858072459963]
Identifier: CC-58280-10001513
Scope and Contents

The slogan relates to Finlay's dispute with the local tax collectors. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Reed Pipe / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Costley, Ron., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-13007-13299
Scope and Contents

Announces the closing of the Garden and the Garden Temple as a result of Little Sparta's War with the tax collectors of Strathclyde Region. The Reed-Pipe image is an air cooled machine gun. Finlay's political aphorisms printed in a caption from More Detached Sentences surrounding this picture poem include 'To change the interpretation of law, is to change the law,' and 'Democracy celebrates confusion and calls it freedom' among others. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Regional News, 1978

 Item — Folder 78: [Barcode: 31858072538378]
Identifier: CC-13262-13563
Scope and Contents

The drawing is dominated by the listing of four silkscreened words listed from top to bottom, viz., Norther, Easter, Wester and Souther. Wide colored lines in a meandering fashion like unwound, tangled tape from a casette cross, encircle and go under the four directional words. The caption below these words reads, Regional News: one line the shortest distance between two points bing the prettiest. On the right side, Furnival draws in graphite, Paris c'est beauborg n'est pastiche. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Ripple, n. / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-12063-12287
Scope and Contents

On this bluish-gray colored card, Finlay defines "ripple" as a small dark-blue fold or dent, resembling a wood-chip.Will float on fresh or salt water in all light airs. Ripple was printed at the Barbarian Press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

RSMPS2: the rubber stamp mini-printer series 1, 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-27515-28570
Scope and Contents

Book is designed with orange colored blank pages interspersed with tan colored pages onto which three to four line poems have been rubberstamped with blue ink. For example, one poem reads, "Ode: - The Society - of Design-Bookbinders - hide-bound." One poem in a larger font is stamped in light blue ink across two pages and reads, "We hardly see the moon anymore." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

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