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Miss, you don't have to lie to us any more!

Poster
1989 (designed and printed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Most schools in Prague had participated in the 'Velvet Revolution' in Czechoslovakia by suppoting the general strike on the 27th of November 1989. This poster captures the joy of both pupils and teachers at the prospect of education without censorship or constraint following the fall of the communist regime.

Designed, printed and published in former Czechoslovakia


Object details

Categories
Object type
Titles
  • Miss, you don't have to lie to us any more! (generic title)
  • Pro-democracy Poster Collection (named collection)
Materials and techniques
Lithograph in blue and red printed on paper
Brief description
Poster issued in support of Civic Forum designed, published and printed in former Czechoslovakia, 1989.
Physical description
Poster issued in support of Civic Forum and reproduced from a screenprint. The design is a schematic negative image of four schoolchildren, two with raised hands addressing their teacher in joy at Czechoslovakia's liberation from communist oppression, as a result of the Velvet Revolution. The design also features the artist's imitation of the Civic Forum logo.
Dimensions
  • Maximum height: 60.1cm
  • Maximum width: 84.9cm
Size of paper
Marks and inscriptions
  • PANI UCITELKO, UZ NAM NEMUSITE LHAT!
    Translation
    Please Miss, you don't have to tell any more lies!
  • j.v. (These are the artist's initials signed in the plate, but as the custom under communism was freequently to express a name with the surname first, it is not known which initial refers to the first name and which to the surname.)
Credit line
Given by Zdenek Kavan
Production
Designed, printed and published in former Czechoslovakia

Reason For Production: Commemorative
Subjects depicted
Place depicted
Summary
Most schools in Prague had participated in the 'Velvet Revolution' in Czechoslovakia by suppoting the general strike on the 27th of November 1989. This poster captures the joy of both pupils and teachers at the prospect of education without censorship or constraint following the fall of the communist regime.

Designed, printed and published in former Czechoslovakia
Collection
Accession number
E.14-1991

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Record createdJanuary 25, 2006
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