Word: strike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moreover, it is always an ecstatic pleasure to see art forms (in this case, the poster) lend itself so well to the practical needs of the community in terms of communication and education. What is appealing about the medium of the strike posters is their personal message from a group of unassuming striking people to a larger group of undecided Harvard people. The posters try to reach people, not direct them. They are tacked on trees and plastered on walls, not pinned to bulletin boards. (They are, in fact, ripped down by "officials...
...posters are hand-cut, too. This is important. Before the Friday night when the Strike Artists' Co-operative began, none of them had known about the technique of silk-screen printing. A couple of people brought in the method and showed them how it goes. Since then about thirty people have picked up the process by which virtually all of the posters of the strike have been printed...
...anyone who comes in with an idea is shown how to make his own and allowed to do it), a few are exceptionally magnificent and approach the best work produced by a whole country full of screaming leftists in France last Mai. There is the "on strike abstract" poster (see Strike Graphics Illustration #4), which is a print that was originally a woodcut and was adapted to silk-screen for reproduction. Its use of a circular figure makes it the most suggestive of the strike workshop's designs...
...Much of Nothing" poster (see Strike Graphics Illustration #3) is a simply great, vaguely cubist construction with the letters "Too Much of Nothing" alternately dropping in and out of a background map of Harvard Yard. The silk-screen method is a medium particularly well suited to alternating blacks and whites so the background and foreground read over each other in a reverse transparency. The technique makes the "Too Much of Nothing" poster at first hard to read, but ultimately a wonderful design...
...Strike" poster (see Strike Graphics Illustration #1) is the best effort of the simplicity form. And the "big fist in the air" poster (see Strike Graphics Illustration #2) goes best when it's demanding "Black Studies." There is something about the letters "B" and "k" that are really miltant; besides, it looks better in black than...