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Mai ’68 French Revolutionary And General Strike Posters, Michael Organ
Mai ’68 French Revolutionary And General Strike Posters, Michael Organ
Counterculture Studies
The May 1968 (Mai ’68) social and cultural revolution in France generated a distinctive collection of posters produced by students associated with various Paris-based university community workshops known as Ateliers Populaire. These ephemeral items were in the form of graphically simple, primarily monotone, silkscreen posters. As an expression of the prevailing counterculture, they represented the important role of the fine arts in expressing to the wider public, and supporting, the concerns and desires of young people involved in the widespread protests which sought to curtail restriction of individual freedom of expression on university campuses, and support the actions of workers …
When Marginal Counterculture Becomes Accepted Mainstream: Preservation And Counterculture(S) Heritage Of The Past, Barry L. Stiefel
When Marginal Counterculture Becomes Accepted Mainstream: Preservation And Counterculture(S) Heritage Of The Past, Barry L. Stiefel
Counterculture Studies
In recent years there has been an emerging phenomenon of places and things associated with counterculture becoming a central focus of the heritage preservation field, which in a manner of speaking, is an indicator that the places, tangible objects, and intangible traditions of counterculture gradually shifts in acceptance from being the margins to the center of cultural heritage values. Examples include the Haight-Ashbury Neighbourhood in San Francisco, California that was nominated to the National Register of Historic Places in 2011; and Bob Dylan being awarded the Noble Prize for Literature “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American …