ANTI-IMPERIALISM - Comitato Vietnam Milano.

Inquire · Offered by Peter Harrington

Ribellarsi è giusto ribellarsi è possibile (Rebellion is right, rebellion is possible). Striking pop art-influenced suite of anti-imperialist propaganda posters published in Milan by the Comitato Vietnam - self-described in their literature as the "sezione italiana del tribunale Russell". The work of a collective comprised of six prominent Italian artists, the images carry the theme 'Rebellion is right, rebellion is possible' into various theatres of anti-imperialist struggle. Baratella (b. 1935), Mariani (b. 1936), and Spadari (1938-97) were long-term collaborators and members of the Nuova Figurazione art movement. Amadori (1945- 2015) won the Joan Miró prize in 1972. Spadari's contribution draws on the "solarised" image of Castro in the Cuban Revolution from his work "26 de julio", while in an anti-Vietnam War themed poster similarly treated repeated images of a Vietnamese women are overlain by a Lichtensteinian US fighter jet wheeling away from an explosion from which emerges a Coca-Cola bottle cap with the slogan 'Nixon boia' - Nixon executioner, also the title of a song by popular singer-story teller Franco Trincale - and the partially obscured text '[Co]ca-Cola mer[da]'. Nixon also features on a poster featuring his cartoonish portrait wearing a star-spangled neck-tie while being choked out by several nooses, above him a ferociously snarling Black Panther head; while "Africa Rossa/Africa Nera" centres on a photographic image of the clenched first Black Power salute. Bar

Found via Rare Books Intel, a search across rare-book dealers, auction houses and marketplaces worldwide.