Word: posterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...down Canton's streets, and there is an overpowering feeling of agitation and frustration. Red Guards march around in vigilante groups, stern-faced and forbidding. People move rapidly out of their way. I saw them surround and berate an old man who dared look at an anti-Mao poster, which they promptly tore down. I was stopped several times by Red Guards who demanded identification and were only slightly mollified when I produced my passport. The Westerner is always aware of simmering malevolence toward him. While some still exhibit traditional Chinese graciousness, there are many more who shout obscenities...
...fact, a major retrospective of 78 paintings and drawings on display last week at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art in California includes a veritable gallery of Shahn's recent enthusiasms (see color opposite). The sparkling poster for the Festival of Two Worlds at Spoleto, executed at the request of Composer Gian Carlo Menotti, shows a dashing harlequin of the Italian Renaissance theater's commedia dell' arte...
Cast-Off Antlers. The poster for an off-Broadway production of Arthur Miller's View from the Bridge was done after Shahn had seen the play at rehearsal. He found it "very powerful, very moving." Shahn's watercolor, Branches of Water or Desire, reflects his admiration for the poetry of his son-in-law, Alan Dugan, who won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1962 with his first volume. The picture illustrates one of the poems, which begins...
...Apple juice is good for you," proclaims a billboard in Budapest. "Capture time, take photographs," urges a TV commercial in Prague. "Fly by airplane," reads a Soviet poster. Rudimentary as they are by Western standards, such ads are sign and symbol that the men in the grey flannel öltöny have found a place in increasingly consumer-minded Eastern Europe...
...rest of China, the trouble in Wuhan stemmed from the resentment of the Wuhanese at the boisterous inva sions of Red Guards from Peking, who sweep in and try to take over everything from the city government to factory management in the name of Mao. By wall-poster accounting, no fewer than 350 people have been killed and 1,500 seriously wounded in clashes in Wuhan since last April. A formidable foe heads the resistance against the Maoist intruders: General Chen Tsaitao, commander of the Wuhan Military Region and a distinguished career soldier of the People's Liberation Army...