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Poster – “Civil Action Committee” (10 June 1968 – Atelier Populaire)

10 Friday Jun 2016

Posted by biffbang in Atelier Populaire, Comités d'Action Civique, de Gaulle, June 10-16 1968, Poster, Uncategorized

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“Civic Action Committee” 

(10 June 1968 – Atelier Populaire)

Blue-black screen-print on salmon newsprint (Atelier Populaire stamp)

25.5 x 55.5 cm

Documented in:
Gasquet p. 38 ; Wlassikoff p.36 ; Camard #122a ; Beaubourg #30 ; Dobson #72 ; Peters #215 ; Beauty #206 ; Mesa p95 ; Dobson #7 ; Murs #92 ; Chartres #110 ; Les Affiches #124

Online Resources:
ENSBA # 10670
BNF 

Poster – “Vote Anyway, I’ll do the Rest” (June 1968)

17 Sunday May 2015

Posted by biffbang in Comité d'Initiative Pour un Mouvement Révolutionnaire, de Gaulle, Elections, Poster

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“Vote Anyway, I’ll do the Rest” (June 1968)

Comité d’Initiative Pour un Mouvement Révolutionnaire

Offset black print on yellow poster paper

56 x 75cm

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Documented in:
Camard #164a, Beaubourg #43, Beauty #71; Gasquet p.54; Beaubourg #43; Peters #231; Paves; Artcurial #532

Online References:
ENSBA #10826 
BNF 
Bienecke: BrSides Folio 2008 180
Zurich – 64-0726

Poster – “A Youth Who Worries About the Future too Often” (May 25 1968)

07 Thursday May 2015

Posted by biffbang in de Gaulle, May 20-26 1968, Poster, Uncategorized

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A Youth Who Worries About the Future too Often 

(May 25 1968)

Purple offset on gloss paper

43cm x 56cm

This is one of my favourite posters from May 68 – and indeed one of my favourite graphic images of all time.
The text is almost a direct qoute from a speech made by de Gaulle on May 24: “the profound troubles, especially amongst the youth, who are concerned about their own role and who worry about the future too often” (“les troubles profonds, surtout dans la jeunesse, qui est soucieuse de son propre rôle et que l’avenir inquiet trop souvent”)

There were at least 3 versions made of this poster – my copy is one of the later offset printed ones (the earlier versions were less graphically less sophisticated and screen-printed).

This image is also famous for inspiring Jaimie Reid in making an early version of the Sex Pistols’ “God Save the Queen” 7″ cover.

  
Documented in:

Gasquet p. 167; Wlassikoff p. 64 ; Dobson #43 ; Les Affiches #203 ; Peters #53;  Beauty #81′ Mesa p43 ; Paris p142

Poster – Cross of Lorraine (June 3 1968, Fac Medicine)

07 Thursday May 2015

Posted by biffbang in de Gaulle, Elections, Fac Medicine, June 3-9 1968, Poster, Uncategorized

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Cross of Lorraine 

(3 June 1968, Fac Medicine)


Black screen-print on newsprint

This poster was released just after de Gaulle had announced the election to be held at the end of June.

The Cross of Lorraine (Croix de Lorraine) was the symbol of Free France (the government-in-exile led by Charles de Gaulle) during World War 2, and was retained by de Gaulle after the war as the symbol of his political movement: Gaullism.

So here we have a depiction of the generic French voter with de Gaulle’s symbol screwed right into his brain.

Documented in:

Camard #145; Peters #237; Beauty #146; Beaubourg #71;  Gasquet p.97; Paves; Dobson #67
Online References:
BnF

Zurich – 64-0708

Poster – “Vote, Old Man, Vote for the Fifth [Republic]” (June 1968, Fac des Sciences)

04 Monday May 2015

Posted by biffbang in de Gaulle, Elections, Fac des Sciences, Poster, Uncategorized

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Vote, Old Man, Vote for the Fifth [Republic] (Fac des Sciences)
Orange screenprint on computer paper (Faculté des Sciences stamp)

28cm x 42cm

Documented in:

Camard #153b; Beauty #108b

Online References:

BNF

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