Word: posterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are four cards in the hand: two boys, Mark and Eric; two striking girls, Elizabeth and Emilie. They see more or less of what is happening, the Jeu Total. (That is the title of a French poster in Eric's apartment. Poster of a face holding four cards, the cards are held by a witch who mixes hands from the hand. To know Jeu Total you must know the mind of the player, the Witch of Changes. "A sullen, sleepy-eyed girl--someone really nasty." You won't forget the line when you hear...
...Father. Her younger sister, Li Min, has been on the revolutionary stage only since last summer. A member of the Science and Technological Commission, she co-authored a Red Guard wall poster denouncing Marshal Nieh Jung-chen, commonly thought to head China's nuclear program. His crime, in Li Min's book, was sheltering "renegades" and "capitalist-readers...
Original prints, even huge day-glo posters under black light are in their way more valuable than photographic reproductions of the Great Works of Fine Arts 13. With the poster you not only have the "picture" designed by the artist but the materials, the consistency and the total visual effect. With a paper edition of Rembrandt you hold only a deceitful shadow of the real object without the thick oil texture, the density, the depth that make the work great...
PROBABLY the best selection of posters psychedelic is at the slick but very good Truc-in-the-Alley Poster Gallery, behind the Brattle Theater. Others are scattered all over groovy Cambridge, with some interesting ones at the Harvard Square Art Center near Inman Square on Mass. Ave., a few blocks from the Union...
Artist Ben Shahn, 70, who drew post ers for F.D.R.'s 1944 campaign, did the same for Henry A. Wallace in 1948 and this year produced the McCarthy peace poster, plans to sit the election out. "I don't have a candidate," says Shahn. "I feel disenfranchised." There are temptations, though. "I'm thinking of doing a painting called The Happiness Boys, showing Humphrey and Muskie dancing in straw hats-going offstage...