Political poetry

Scope and Contents With a searing body of work ranging from films and drawings to print, sculptures, and theatrical productions, William Kentridge has offered a fresh and distinctive perspective on the contemporary social landscape, with a particular emphasis on his native South Africa. His practice of the past two decades is based on his intensive exploration of themes that are evocative of his own life experience as well as the political issues that most concern him. Produced in close collaboration with the artist, this catalogue investigates the five primary themes that have engaged Kentridge over the course of his influencial career: 1. Parcours d'Atelier: Artist in the Studio 2.Thick Time: Soho and Felix 3.Occasional and Residual Hope: Ubu and the Procession 4.Sarastro and the Master's Voice: The Magic Flute 5.Learning from the Absurd: The Nose Rich in content and illustrations, the publication bears witness to an artist wrestling with each theme and experimenting with formally innovative ways...

Dates: 2009

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs(unprocessed)

Flag Book: Interaction Towards a Better World / Lopes, Fernando ; Wolf An., 1996

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Identifier: CC-28425-29670

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As described in the Nexus Press brochure 1995-1996, "The flags of 96 nations have been deconstructed and distilled into a playful book structure that invites reader manipulation. The physical movement of the folded accordion pleats produces staccato-like visual bites of color, while evoking a conceptual call for universal understanding and unity. The Flag Book intrigues by its outer simplicity: The glossy black colors...open to reveal an emphatic burst of bright visual connections between countries the world over."The paper structure for the book was done by Anna Wolf. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

F(lag) Hi(story) / Anonymous., 1976

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Identifier: CC-25838-26299

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This work might have been composed by Mary Ellen Solt. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Flight from America, 1965

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Identifier: CC-15509-15836

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John Furnival designed the front and back covers with a concrete poetic theme. This book is stored in Furnival's box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PERIODICALS / NON-COMMERCIAL AND ARTIST PERIODICALS

Flowers for Midwinter's Day December 22, 1964

Item — Folder 3: [Barcode: 31858072459419]

Identifier: CC-21267-21677

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Design by Sam Kirkpatrick. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

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

Flowers for Midwinter's Day December 22, 1964

Item — Folder 3: [Barcode: 31858072459419]

Identifier: CC-22075-22492

Scope and Contents This poster was designed by Sam Kirkpatrick. Bill Butler (1934-1977) who ran the Unicorn Bookshop at No 50 Gloucester Road from 1960 to about 1970. After he closed the shop, Bill moved to South Wales and then later died of a suspected drugs overdose (October 1977), but whether this was suicide or accidental is unclear. Bill was very much part of the alternative lifestyle set in Brighton at that time. One of his own books, which he published himself under the pen name of Hassan Sabbah, was called Leaves of Grass: the Hash Cookbook. Who he was Bill's full name was William Huxford Butler. He was an American beat poet and occultist. He was very tall (over 6 feet). He lived in Over Street, very near to his shop. A specialist bookshop The Unicorn Bookshop used to specialise in modern poetry, stocking the work of Ginsberg and similar American and British poets. Graham Greene, who visited the shop, wrote: "Unicorn is one of the most interesting bookshops in Great Britain." The whole of the...

Dates: 1964

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

Flushing / Thalia., 1993

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Identifier: CC-01621-1656

Dates: 1993

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Flyposter Frenzy / Fuller, Matthew, editor., 1992

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Identifier: CC-11392-11608

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: Books (unprocessed)

Folio. Oct / Hirschman J., 1972

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Identifier: CC-11393-11609

Dates: 1972

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals(unprocessed)

Follies War Special / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987

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Identifier: CC-12994-13286

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The text "Barr the traitor reads his sentence" is illustrated by a hand holding a plumed pen and writing a French political message refers to Finlay's problem with the citation of the Garden Temple in Ian Barr's (Chairman of the Saltire Society - motto Scotland) sponsorship of a book on Architectural Follies in Scotland. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

for a lifetime of shooting - buy a gun! / Goswell, Joan Iversen., 2003

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Identifier: CC-40471-42443

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This depicts a Attorney-General John Ashcroft holding a rifle and sitting on a large pile of red colored, spent rifle bullets. -- 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: Various Formats(unprocessed)

for a lifetime of shooting - buy a gun! / Goswell, Joan Iversen., 2003

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Identifier: CC-41447-43432

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The image depicts Attorney General John Ashcroft, holding a rifle and sitting on a large pile of bullets. -- 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: Various Formats(unprocessed)

For Jack Kerouac: Poems on His Death / Finch, Peter, editor ; Cobbing B ; Hollo A ; Finch P., 1987

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Identifier: CC-11325-11541

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Second revised edition that was originally published as Second Aeon Booklet Series No.11 in 1970. The sound poem by Cobbing is a phonetic text using Kerouac's name. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)