La Police vous parle tous les soirs à 20h.
Poster
1968 (Designed and printed)
1968 (Designed and printed)
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When French national radio and television went on strike in 1968, they commissioned posters from the French art students who formed the Atelier Populaire in Paris. During the strike, members of the Ministry for Home Affairs ran television and radio news bulletins at the request of the government. Many felt that they couldn't trust the pro-government propaganda coming over the air waves.
The message of this poster, produced at the height of political unrest, is that the television news is a form of thought control. Televisual messages were presented as all the more manipulative by contrast with the directness of this poster: the medium works to reinforce the meaning.
The message of this poster, produced at the height of political unrest, is that the television news is a form of thought control. Televisual messages were presented as all the more manipulative by contrast with the directness of this poster: the medium works to reinforce the meaning.
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| Materials and techniques | Lithograph |
| Brief description | Anti-French media poster produced by Atelier Populaire, Paris. France, 1968. |
| Physical description | Text on three lines across upper margin. Image of a police officer wearing a helmet, the nose of his rifle seen behind his shoulder, speaking into an ORTF (French National Radio and Television) microphone. |
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| Credit line | Gift of the American Friends of the V&A; Gift to the American Friends by Leslie, Judith and Gabri Schreyer and Alice Schreyer Batko |
| Production | made by students at the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris (poster workshop of the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs) |
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| Summary | When French national radio and television went on strike in 1968, they commissioned posters from the French art students who formed the Atelier Populaire in Paris. During the strike, members of the Ministry for Home Affairs ran television and radio news bulletins at the request of the government. Many felt that they couldn't trust the pro-government propaganda coming over the air waves. The message of this poster, produced at the height of political unrest, is that the television news is a form of thought control. Televisual messages were presented as all the more manipulative by contrast with the directness of this poster: the medium works to reinforce the meaning. |
| Associated object | E.228-1985 (Duplicate) |
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| Other number | LS.1375 - Leslie Schreyer Loan Number |
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| Accession number | E.671-2004 |
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| Record created | August 12, 2004 |
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