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May 1968: the posters that inspired a movement
Cookney, Daniel
http://theconversation.com/may-1968-the-posters-that-inspired-a-movement-95619Date Written: 2018-05-11 Publisher: The Conversation, Toronto, Canada Year Published: 2018 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX25395 The May 1968 uprising in France produced an important visual language for protest that still resonates half a century later. While often aesthetically crude in design, the posters were pasted up in the streets calling for solidarity in the fight against capitalism. Abstract: - Excerpt: Emanating from the printing room of Paris’ École des Beaux Arts, a group calling itself Atelier Populaire (“Popular Workshop”) subsequently produced the posters. They called them “weapons in the service of the struggle”. This extensive series depicted the tools of the proletariat, including the hammer, the spanner, the paintbrush, and reclaimed them as objects of power rather than subservience. Subject Headings |