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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-95619
Publisher: The Conversation, Toronto, Canada
Date Written: 11/05/2018
Year Published: 2018
Resource Type: Article
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.
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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.
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