Category Archives: June 17-23 1968

Poster – “18 June 1968 De Gaulle = Petain” (around 18 June 1968 – Atelier Arts Décoratifs)

20 Wednesday Jun 2018

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“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

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Poster – “The impetus is given for a Long Struggle” (18 June – Atelier Populaire)

19 Tuesday Jun 2018

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“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

Online Resources:
BNF
Zurich

Poster – “Appeal of 18 June 1968” (18 June 1968 – Committee for Free Information)

18 Monday Jun 2018

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“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

Poster – “Parliametarism doesn’t pay” (before 23 June 1968 – Atelier Populaire”)

22 Wednesday Jun 2016

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“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

Poster – “Peoples’ Power” (19 June 1968 – Atelier Populaire)

19 Sunday Jun 2016

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“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

Poster – “No to Shantytowns. No to Shonky Towns” (18 June 1968)

18 Saturday Jun 2016

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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

Tract – “The Disturbances at the ORTF” (Around 17th June 1968, FGDS)

24 Tuesday Mar 2015

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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

Poster – ”A Large Exhibition-Sale” (pre-22 June 1968)

26 Wednesday Nov 2014

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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!