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China 89

Poster
ca 1989 (designed and printed), 1990 (printed and published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

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

Categories
Object type
TitleChina 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.
Dimensions
  • Maximum height: 61.6cm
  • Maximum width: 48.2cm
size of sheet
Marks and inscriptions
  • Tisk Propagacni Tvorba Praha
  • Typo © Studio Radost
Credit line
Given by Zdenek Kavan
Production
Designed, printed and published in former Czechoslovakia
Subjects depicted
Places depicted
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.
Collection
Accession number
E.26-1991

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Record createdMarch 29, 2006
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