An inventory of the collection
held in the Special Collections Division of the University of British Columbia Library.
Inventory and processing by Katrina Ao, John Horodyski, Anna Wilkinson, Christina Zeller
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 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 École des Beaux Arts. From École 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. A print copy of the inventory, together with the slides, is housed under the call number: SPAM95P.
PARIS FOLDER 1
1.
Title: À nous de parler
[trans. It is our turn to speak]
Description: 55 x 44 cm ; orange on white.
Image: 2 heads
- encapsulated
- slide
5.
Title: RATP tiendra
Description: 44.5 x 55.5 cm ; red on white.
Image: a tunnel
- encapsulated
- slide
6.
Title: Pas de replâtrage la structure est pourrie
[trans. no more patching, the framework is rotten]
Description: 36.5 x 51 cm ; violet on white.
Image: vague image
- encapsulated
- slide
8.
Title: Non au pouvoir exploiteur
Description: 41.5 x 55 cm ; black on white, some pencil.
Image: vague image
- encapsulated
- slide
9.
Title: Dénonçons la psychiatrie policier!
[trans. Kill your inner cop!]
Description: 63 x 76 cm ; black on yellow, some red ink
Condition: wrinkled.
Image: paddywagon unloading at a psychiatric hospital
- encapsulated
- slide
PARIS FOLDER 2
10.
Title: ORTF en lutte
Description: 58 x 46 cm ; blue on white.
Image: text through barbed wire
- encapsulated
- slide
11.
Title: Vôtez toujours
Description: 56 x 75 cm ; black on yellow
Conditon: wrinkled.
Image: man patting France.
- encapsulated
- slide
14.
Title: Habitants du quartier soyez vigilants!...
Description: 55.5 x 28 cm ; black on white.
Image: no image
- encapsulated
15.
Title: Construction spéculation profit
Descripton: 43 x 55 cm ; red on white
Image: count of injured and dead
- encapsulated
16.
Title: Habitants de Juvisy Orge soutenez les grévistes de votre quartier
Description: 66 x 56 cm ; red on white
Image: no image
- encapsulated
PARIS FOLDER 3
17.
Title: Tous unis contre la provocation gaulliste
[trans. all united against the Gaullist provocation]
Description: 56 x 44.5 cm ; green on white
Image: no image
- encapsulated
20.
Title: Je lutterai contre les étudiants je lutterai contre les travailleurs…
Description: 44.5 x 87 cm ; black on white
Image: face
- encapsulated
- slide
22.
Title: À l’appel de l’union des étudiants…
Description: 79 x 58.5 cm ; blue on white
Image: no image
- encapsulated
- slide
24.
Title: Ma victoire
[trans. my victory]
Description: 62 x 77 cm ; neon orange on white
Image: man breaking France
- encapsulated
- slide
25.
Title: Halte à 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.
Title: Camarades ouvriers!
Description: 59 x 90 cm ; black on white
Image: no image
- encapsulated
- slide
29.
Title: Attention: la radio ment
Description: 45 x 58 cm ; black on white
Image: microphone with a triangle
- encapsulated
- slide
30.
Title: 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
- encapsulated
- slide
31.
Title: Information libre
[trans. free information]
Description: 53 x 71 cm; blue on yellow
Image: blindfolded speaker
- encapsulated
- slide
32.
Title: La lutte continue
[trans. the struggle continues]
Description: 39 x 56 cm ; black on orange
Image: fist
- encapsulated
- slide
PARIS FOLDER 5
33.
Title: CRSSS
Description: 43 x 55 cm ; dark blue on white
Image: no image
- encapsulated
- slide
34.
Title: Frey chef des indics assassin de Charonne patron des briseurs de grève
Description: 54 x 81 cm ; violet on white
Image: top half of a person
- encapsulated
- slide
35.
Title: Frontières repression
[trans. frontiers repression]
Description: 33 x 44 cm; brown on white
Image: riot police
- encapsulated
- slide
36.
Title: La lutte continue
[trans. the struggle continues]
Description: 51 x 44 cm ; black on white
Image: 6 people
- encapsulated
- slide
38.
Title: Les conquêtes noyées
Description: 58 x 78 cm ; blue on yellow
Image: fist
Condition: wrinkled
- encapsulated
- slide
39.
Title: La chienlit c'est lui
[trans. He’s chaos]
Description: 30 x 38.5 cm ; brown on white
Image: top half of a person
- encapsulated
- slide
42.
Title: Laissons la peur du rouge aux bêtes à cornes
Description: 44 x 33 cm ; red/black on white
Image: bulls
- encapsulated
- slide
PARIS FOLDER 6
2.
Title: La lutte continue
[trans. the fight continues]
Description: 77 x 132 cm ; black on white
Image: hand casting vote, 5 fists raised
3.
Title: Mardi matin
[trans. Tuesday morning]
Description: 67 x 85 cm; red on yellow
Image: crowd
Condition: frayed edges
7.
Title: Les ouvriers de flins
Description: 92.5 x 140 cm ; brown on white
Image: raised fist
Condition: slightly ripped on edges
12.
Title: À nos revendications légitimes de Gaulle répond fascisme
[trans. to our grievances de Gaulle responds with facism]
Description: 117 x 90 cm ; blue/ red on white
Image: French flag
Condition: frayed edges
13.
Tltle: Nous avons gagné une bataille
[trans. we have won a battle]
Description: 94 x 38 cm ; brown on white
Image: no image
Condition: some smudged text
19.
Title: Paris nous appartient
[trans. Paris belongs to us]
Description: 45 x 56 cm ; black on white
Image: no image
Condition: tape marks on corners
21.
Title: Nous avons besoin de vous
[trans. we need you]
Description: 84 x 57 cm ; blue/brown/ violet on white
Image: doll store
Condition: tape marks on edges
23.
Title: Nous sommes le pouvoir
[trans. we are the power]
Description: 75 x 56 cm ; brown on white
Image: silhouette of 6 men
Condition: torn and folded at edges
27.
Title: Nous ne serons pas dupes
[trans. we will not be fooled]
Description: 76 x 107 cm ; red on white
Image: no image
Conditon: section torn off on lower left corner; stains and dirt marks on edges
28.
Title: Non les grands magasins
[trans. no to big stores]
Description: 55 x 84 cm ; green on white
Image: building corner
PARIS FOLDER 7
3.
Title: Soutenez les cheminots en grève
Description: 65 x 100 cm ; violet/ neon red on white
Image: stoplights
- encapsulated
- slide
18.
Title: Et après?
[trans. and after?]
Description: 65 x 77 cm; black on white
Image: person lying on their back
Condition: glued on cardboard; wrinkled
- encapsulated
- slide
37.
Title: Le vôte ne change rien
[trans. your vote changes nothing]
Description: 76 x 96 cm ; black on white
Image: hand casting vote, 5 fists raised
- encapsulated
- slide
40.
Title: Centre d'intoxication civique
[trans. public intoxication centre]
Description: 65 x 98.5 cm ; black on white
Image: 7 bulls standing on hind legs
- encapsulated
- slide
41.
Title: Une jeunesse que l'avenir…
Description: 66 x 86 cm ; violet on white
Image: face covered in bandage wrap on fingers (as a puppeteer)
- encapsulated
- slide