21 Thursday Jun 2018
Posted in Atelier Populaire, June 17-23 1968, Poster
“The Struggle Continues – Let’s support the Boatmen’s Strike”
(21 June – Atelier Populaire)
Green screen-print on green poster paper
60 x 80.5cm
Documented in:
Mesa p111; Dobson #123; UUU p51; Peters #149; Camard #81b; Les Affiches #78 & 77; Wlassikoff p134, Beauty #73; Gasquet p156; Murs #143; Tchou
Online Resources:
BNF
Zurich
ENSBA #10618
20 Wednesday Jun 2018
Posted in de Gaulle, Ecole des Arts Décoratifs, June 17-23 1968, Poster
“18 June 1968 De Gaulle = Petain”
(around 18 June 1968 – Atelier Arts Décoratifs
Black screen-print on newspaper
13 x 85cm
This equation of de Gaulle to the reviled capitulator Petain (head of the Vichy government after the German victory in France in WW2) is particularly pointed. The date referred to is the anniversary of de Gaulle’s famous 1940 call for French Resistance to the occupying forces.
Documented in:
Gasquet p114; Artcurial #500; Camard #147b
Online Resources:
Zurich
19 Tuesday Jun 2018
Posted in Atelier Populaire, June 17-23 1968, Poster
“The impetus is given for a Long Struggle”
(18 June – Atelier Populaire)
Green screen-print on newspaper
75.5 x 80cm
Documented in:
Mesa p116; Dobson #196; Peters #123; Beaubourg #177; Camard #40a; Wlassikoff p133; Imagination #32; Beauty #190; Gasquet p145; Murs #76; Paves; Artcurial #399; Chartres #56; Tchou
18 Monday Jun 2018
Posted in de Gaulle, June 17-23 1968, Poster
“Appeal of 18 June 1968
To all Frenchmen
France has lost a battle !
But France has not lost the war !
The union and political mandarins may have capitulated, giving way to panic, forgetting honour, delivering the people into bondage. Yet nothing is lost !
Nothing is lost, because our struggle is a permanent struggle. In the whole world, immense forces have not yet swung into operation. Some day these forces will crush the enemy. On that day, we will have won our dignity.
That is why all Frenchmen, wherever they may be, must unite in action, in risk and in hope.
The spirit is in mortal danger.
Let us all fight to save it.
Long live the Rage !
The Revolution”
Dark blue offset-print
30 x 40cm
This has become one of my favourite posters from May 68. It is an incredibly clever détournement of De Gaulle’s wartime Appeal of the same date in 1940, with slight changes (underlined above) making it completely relevant to the revolutionary situation of 1968.
Here is the original:
Documented in:
Gasquet p. 19 ; Beaubourg #39 ; Beauty #B401 ; Mesa p109 ; Chartres #156 ; Peters #250; Camard #147a; Murs #158
Online Resources:
ENSBA #12885
22 Wednesday Jun 2016
Posted in Atelier Populaire, Elections, June 17-23 1968, Poster, Uncategorized
“Parliametarism doesn’t pay”
Note the juggler representing the PCF (French Communist Party).
(before 23 June 1968 – Atelier Populaire”)
Blue screenprint on newspaper (AP – with line)
590 x 760
Documented in:
Dobson #181; Beauty #201; Gasquet p. 54 ; Artcurial #558 ; Camard #162 ; Mesa p128; Les Affiches #191; Murs #164
Online Resources:
ENSBA #10600
Zurich – 64-0730
BNF
21 Tuesday Jun 2016
Posted in Comités d'Action Civique, Elections, Gaullist, June 17-23 1968, Tract, Uncategorized
HAVE A SUNDAY OFF
VOTE DIRECTLY
in the 1st ROUND
AS YOU WILL VOTE IN THE SECOND
Civil Action Committees
19 Sunday Jun 2016
Posted in Atelier Populaire, Elections, June 17-23 1968, PCF, Poster, PSU, Uncategorized
“Peoples’ Power”
(19 June 1968 – Atelier Populaire)
Red screenprint on newspaper (Atelier Populaire stamp)
48.5 x 76.5 cm
Documented in:
UUU p.89; Dobson #188; Mésa, p121; Camard #157; Beauty #106; Gasquet p. 136 ; Wlassikoff p.137 ; Artcurial #447 ; Camard #157 ; Beaubourg #201 ; Paves; Imagination #33 ; Peters #59; Les Affiches #185; Chartres #84
Online Resources:
ENSBA #10536/10775
Zurich – 64-0743
BNF
Bienecke: BrSides Folio 2008 23
18 Saturday Jun 2016
Posted in June 17-23 1968, Poster, Uncategorized
PUBLIC DEBATE
MUTUALITÉ
Tuesday 18 June at 9PM
NO TO SHANTYTOWNS
NO TO SHONKY TOWNS
TOWN PLANNING is a political act
IT HAS TO BE at the service of the people
Organised by Students and Professionals from every discipline involved in improving the living environment, Users’ Societies, and the APPAUR.
(18 June 1968)
Red & black offset on semi-gloss paper
58 x 76 cm
Documented in:
Gasquet p. 158 ; Beauty #367b ; Mesa p110 ; Chartres #21; Artcurial #333b ; Les Affiches #175
24 Tuesday Mar 2015
Posted in FGDS, June 17-23 1968, ORTF, Tract
The disturbances at the ORTF
120 JOURNALISTS
on strike including:
– Leon ZITRONE
– F. de Closet
– F. POTTECHER
etc
Fighting for an
IMPARTIAL ORTF!
For the Freedom of information
For Union Freedom
Marie Thérese EYQUEM
FGDS Candidate
“Socialism in Freedom”
Invites you to participate in a large debate
MONDAY 17 JUNE at 8:45pm
ECOLE DE GARÇONS, 40 Bd. DIDEROT
26 Wednesday Nov 2014
Posted in June 17-23 1968, Poster, Uncategorized
Red-green-blue split-fountain screen-print
49.5cm x 38.5cm
“For the defence of political liberties
Against the dissolution of 11 revolutionary movements
Against the expulsions, the arrests, the police raids
And all breaches of the freedom of opinion
For an independent and autonomous ORTF
For the benefit of the dismissed strikers, the imprisoned and expelled students
A LARGE EXHIBITION-SALE
of drawings, lithographs, posters, and books
will take place on 22-23 June and 29-30 June
All day, at
NEW PARIS FACULTY OF SCIENCES
(Hall of Wine)
The participating artists and writers will be present
together with their friends, singers, film-makers, actors, composers
EVERYONE
is asked to come in support of their gesture of solidarity”
This poster may not be the most visually exciting from May 1968, but it would seem to fill in some missing history. I have known for a while that a number of artists created works to be sold in support of the striking workers and protesting students (amongst them Karel Appel and Asger Jorn). But I had no idea how this was organised – and this looks very much like the answer!
Documents from May 1968 