24 Tuesday Mar 2015
Posted in Artist-produced, May 20-26 1968, ORTF, Poster, Uncategorized
“No [censorship] for a Population of Adults – Independence & Autonomy of the ORTF”
(May 24th 1968 – Jean Effel)
Colour offset/lithograph on semi-gloss poster paper
60 x 80cm
Documented in:
Gasquet p.123; Beaubourg #75; Imagination #66; Camard #196a; Artcurial #522; Tchou ; Beauty #135 ; Paves ; Murs #95; Les Affiches #217
Online References:
Bienecke: BrSides Folio 2009 35
ENSBA # 10798.
Zurich – 64-0728
24 Tuesday Mar 2015
Posted in Artist-produced, ORTF, Poster, Uncategorized
“ORTF Freedom, ORTF Truth” Jean Banzaine
Colour offset/lithograph on heavy poster paper
58 x 80cm
Documented in:
Online References: Bienecke: BrSides Folio 2008 161
25 Sunday Jan 2015
Posted in Fac des Sciences, Poster
Capital
(Fac des Sciences)
Red screen-print on newsprint
50 x 65cm
Documented in: Camard #49; Imagination #55; Beauty #326b; Beaubourg #157; Artcurial #450/464
Online References:
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!
26 Wednesday Nov 2014
Posted in Artist-produced, Internationale Situationniste, Poster
“Break the Frame which Smothers the Picture”
(June) Asger Jorn
This is one of 4 lithographs Asger Jorn (ex-Cobra, ex-Situationist International) produced to be sold in support of the student movement. The 4 were actually produced on a single sheet which was cut – hence the variable dimensions of every copy (the print size, though, is obviously consistent).
Colour lithograph
32.5 x 50cm
Documented in:
Gasquet p. 214; Beaubourg #264; Artcurial #593; Murs #184b
Online References:
Bienecke: BrSides Folio 2008 57
03 Friday Oct 2014
Posted in Artist-produced, Poster
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“In Action They Showed the Source of Their Beauty”
(June) Karel Appel
A number of artists produced lithographic posters to be sold to fund the student movement. Amongst them were 3 ex-members of the Cobra art movement: Asger Jorn (also an ex-member of the Situationist International), Pierre Alechinsky, and Karel Appel.
This poster by Appel in referring to the “beauty” of the students has been suggested to be playing on his own reputation as a painter of less-than-beautiful figures.
6 colour lithograph
60.5 x 78cm
Documented in: Beaubourg #237; Artcurial #580; Murs #182
23 Tuesday Sep 2014
Posted in Flyer, May 13-19 1968, Poster
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“The Fist of No Return/The Point of No Return”
(May 19)
Personally I like puns – but puns in other languages are strange things indeed. To understand this flyer you need to know that in French “poing” (fist) and “point” (point) sound identical.
So this image of a revolutionary fist punching De Gaulle in the face both illustrates what the majority of the protesters in May 68 would like to see happen (whether metaphorically or literally!), and spells out that that things have progressed too far to go back to normal.
Red-brown offset flyer
13.5cm x 20cm
Documented in:
Mai 68 p.26; Gasquet p.29 ; Dobson #24 ; Peters #111+223 ; Beauty #155 ; Camard #148a ; Mesa p53; Wlassikoff p.26; Beauty #155 + 18b
Online Reference:
BNF
Zurich Museum of Design
(see Sources page for full details of references)
21 Sunday Sep 2014
Posted in Atelier Populaire, May 20-26 1968, Poster
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The Struggle Continues
(20/29 May 1968 – Atelier Populaire)
Brown-black screen-print on salmon paper
38.5cm x 56.5cm
Documented in:
Gasquet p. 188; Beaubourg #185; Imagination #13; Wlassikoff p.84; Camard #39bis; Camard #67; Artcurial #363; Dobson #174, UUU p. 18, Les Affiches #29+30; Peters #103 ; Beauty #11; Mesa p83 ; Murs #133
Online References:
ENSBA # 10522
BNF
Zurich Museum of Design
16 Tuesday Sep 2014
Posted in Atelier Populaire, Poster
Yes to Participation
(Atelier Populaire ex-Beaux Arts)
There’s no doubting the strength of the message here! Surprisingly this is one of only a handful of ‘rude’ images used on posters – given these were students after all, that’s a bit odd.
This is the only poster that I have a copy of that I can find no information on. It isn’t illustrated in any of the books I’ve seen. If anyone has any info please get in touch via the comments
On the reverse of the paper there is some computer code printed, so it may have come from the Facilite des Sciences. Though as you can see it is stamped Atelier Populaire ex-Beaux Arts (though in a style of stamp I’ve not come across before – again any info is more than welcome!)
Dark blue screen-print on paper (stamp of the ‘Atelier Populaire ex-Beaux Arts’ on bottom right)
18.5cm x 27.5cm
Online References:
Zurich Museum of Design
14 Sunday Sep 2014
Posted in Atelier Populaire, June 3-9 1968, Poster, Worker
“The Struggle Continues”
(June 6 1968 – Atelier Populaire)
Produced around June 5, this poster of a group of workers is one of the most iconic images of May 68. The same image was used on 2 different posters – an earlier one was produced on 20 May with the text ‘Nous somme le pouvoir’ (‘We are the power’ or ‘We are the state’).
Black screen-print on newsprint (stamp of the ‘École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts’ with address on top left)
43cm x 51cm
Documented in:
Gasquet p. 191; Beaubourg #187; Camard #33b; Tchou ; Peters #26 ; Beauty #149 ; Mesa p84 ; Murs #134b; Chartres #52; Paris p46
Online References:
ENSBA #10637
BNF
Bienecke: BrSides Folio 2008 52
Zurich Museum of Design
Documents from May 1968 