China 89
Poster
ca 1989 (designed and printed), 1990 (printed and published)
ca 1989 (designed and printed), 1990 (printed and published)
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After the riot police in Prague inflicted violent injuries on the peaceful crowd during the demonstration of 17 November 1989, the Czech students identified with the Chinese students in Tiananmen Square, whose peaceful protests a few months earlier had been violently crushed by army tanks. This exhibition of photographs of the events in Beijing, held at Prague's Klement Gottwald Museum, was a bold condemnation of both Communist governments as well as an expression of sympathy and solidarity for the Chinese students.
Object details
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| Title | China 89 (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Offset lithograph printed on paper |
| Brief description | Exhibition poster for photographs of student demonstration inTiananmen Square, published and printed in former Czechoslovakie, 1990. |
| Physical description | Poster in black and white advertising an exhibition of photographs of the 1989 student protests in Tiananmen Square through the photographic image of a participating student. The view shows head and shoulders, and an arm outstretched with a clenched fist. |
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| Credit line | Given by Zdenek Kavan |
| Production | Designed, printed and published in former Czechoslovakia |
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| Summary | After the riot police in Prague inflicted violent injuries on the peaceful crowd during the demonstration of 17 November 1989, the Czech students identified with the Chinese students in Tiananmen Square, whose peaceful protests a few months earlier had been violently crushed by army tanks. This exhibition of photographs of the events in Beijing, held at Prague's Klement Gottwald Museum, was a bold condemnation of both Communist governments as well as an expression of sympathy and solidarity for the Chinese students. |
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| Accession number | E.26-1991 |
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| Record created | March 29, 2006 |
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