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Berkeley and Paris Poster Collection

Paris 1968 Poster Collection

 
 
 

an inventory of the collection

held in the Special Collections Division

University of British Columbia Library 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Inventory and processing by

Katrina Ao, John Horodyski, Anna Wilkinson, Christina Zeller

March 2001 
 

Introduction 

Donated by Helmut Jung of Gold River, B.C. in 1979. 

Some of the collection was displayed in an exhibition organized by the UBC Fine Arts Department in conjunction with the Centre for the Study of Political Graphics, Los Angeles, and displayed at the Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery. “Up Against the Wall, Motherposter!” was displayed from October – December 1999. 
 
 

Paris 1968 Poster Collection 

This collection of includes French posters and ephemera of the student revolt in Paris, 1968.  

The following text accompanied the collection: 

A century ago, the red and the black referred to the struggle between two Frances, one anticlerical, socialist, universalist; the other Catholic, conservative, nationalist. By 1968, red and black had come to designate a different kind of conflict.  Those who paraded behind red flags during the May revolt represented one or another brand of Communism in power (now or in the past), while those who proudly displayed black flags were anarchists in fact or in tendency. Red flags and black flags flew together in defiance of the bourgeois state. 

The students of France, in the May revolution of 1968, developed a new barebones poster style for anti-Gaullist and anti-police propaganda.  With silkscreen and lithograph, the students produced a series of spontaneous designs. The absence of newspapers, radio, and television allowed the poster to monopolize immediate communication. In next to no time, thousands of posters began to appear all over the country, giving aid and encouragement to the revolution. In Paris, the best designed and most efficiently produced posters came from the Ecole des Beaux Arts. 

From Ecole des Beaux Arts, at the end of May: “A generation of young people that is too frequently disturbed about the future.” (Quotation from de Gaulle’s speech of May 24, 1968). 
 

Contains 42 items. 
 

nb. Slides have been taken of 25 of the posters. These slides are housed, together with a print copy of this inventory, in the Special Collections Division under the call number:

SPAM95P. 
 
 

PARIS 1968 POSTER COLLECTION

PARIS FOLDER 1

 
  1. A Nous de Parler
 
  1. RATP Tiendra
 
  1. Pas de Replatrage la Structure est Pourrie

   [trans. no more patching, the framework is rotten]

 
  1. Non au Pouvoir Exploiteur
 
  1. Denoncons la Psychiatrie Policier!

      Image: paddywagon unloading at a psychiatric hospital

PARIS FOLDER 2

 
  1. ORTF en Lutte
 
 
  1. votez toujours
 

14. Habitants du Quartier Soyez Vigilants!...

      Description: 55.5 x 28 cm ; black on white.  

      Image: no image

      - encapsulated  

15. Construction Speculation Profit

      Descripton: 43 x 55 cm ; red on white

      Image: count of injured and dead

      - encapsulated 

16. Habitants de Juvisy Orge Soutenez les Grevistes de Votre Quartier

      Description: 66 x 56 cm ; red on white

      Image: no image

      - encapsulated 
 

PARIS FOLDER 3

 
 

17. Tous Unis Contre la Provocation Gaulliste

      [trans. all united]

      Description: 56 x 44.5 cm ; green on white  

      Image: no image

      - encapsulated

     

20. Je Lutterai Contre les Etudiants Je Lutterati Contre les Travailleurs…

      Description: 44.5 x 87 cm ; black on white

      Image: face

 

22. A L’appel de L’union des Etudiants…

      Description: 79 x 58.5 cm ; blue on white

      Image: no image

 
 

24. Ma Victoire

      [trans. my victory]

      Description: 62 x 77 cm ; neon orange on white

      Image: man breaking France

 

25. Halte a la Fascisation

      Description: 60 x 78 cm ; black on white

      Image: man shooting person

      Condition: lower left corner torn away

      - encapsulated

      - slide 

PARIS FOLDER 4

 
 

26. Camrades Ouvriers!

      Description: 59 x 90 cm ; black on white

      Image: no image

29. Attention: la Radio Ment

      Description: 45 x 58 cm ; black on white

      Image: microphone with a triangle

 

30. La Police s’affiche aux Beaux Arts

      Description: 56 x 75 cm ; red on yellow

      Image: face biting a paintbrush

       Condition: lower right corner torn off

 
  1. Information Libre

   [trans. free information]

 
 
 
  1. La Lutte Continue

   [trans. the struggle continues]

PARIS FOLDER 5
 
  1. CRSSS
 
  1. Frey Chef des Indics Assassin de Charonne Patron des Briseurs de Greve
 
  1. Frontieres Repression

   [trans. frontiers – repression]

 
  1. La Lutte Continue

   [trans. the struggle continues]

 

38. Les Conquetes Noyees

      Description: 58 x 78 cm ; blue on yellow

      Image: fist

      Condition: wrinkled

     

39. La Chienlit c’est Lui

      [trans. He’s chaos]

      Description: 30 x 38.5 cm ; brown on white

   Image: top half of a person

 
 

PARIS FOLDER 6

 
 
  1. La Lutte Continue

   [trans. the fight continues]

  1. Mardi Martin

   [trans. Tuesday morning]

  1. Les Ourviers de Flins
  1. A Nos Revendications Legitimes de Gaulle Repond Fascismse

   [trans. to our grievances de Gaulle responds with facism]

  1. Nous Avons Gagné une Bataille

   [trans. we have won a battle]

19. Paris Nous Appartient

   [trans. Paris belongs to you]

21. Nous Avons Besoin de Vous

   [trans. we need you]

23. Nous Sommes le Pouvoir

   [trans. we are the power]

27. Nous ne Serons pas Dupes

   [trans. we will not be fooled]

28. Non les Grands Magasins

   [trans. no to big stores]

PARIS FOLDER 7

 
 
  1. Soutenez les Chiminots en Greve

   [trans. uphold the strike]

 

18. Et Apres? 

   [trans. and after?]

 
  1. Le Vote ne Change Rien

   [trans. your vote changes nothing]

 
 

40. Centre d’intoxication Civique

   [trans. public intoxication centre]

 
 

41. Une Jeunesse que l’Avenir…

   [trans. Youth too often worried about the future]