Save our Planet, Save Our Cities!
Poster
1971 (made)
1971 (made)
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Black and white printed poster on paper depicting a section of midtown Manhattan incapsulated in a dome.
Object details
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| Title | Save our Planet, Save Our Cities! (popular title) |
| Materials and techniques | Half-tone and screen print |
| Brief description | Poster entitled 'Save our Planet, Save our Cities', by R. Buckminster Fuller. USA, 1971. |
| Physical description | Black and white printed poster on paper depicting a section of midtown Manhattan incapsulated in a dome. |
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| Production type | Mass produced |
| Marks and inscriptions | Buckminster Fuller (signed) |
| Credit line | Given by Olivetti Ltd. |
| Object history | This is one of six anti-pollution posters sponsored by Olivetti Limited in 1971 and produced under the guidance of Jean Herzberg Lipman, a noted New York patron of the arts and longtime editor of 'Art in America'. With her impressive contacts, she attracted Roy Lichtenstein, Georgia O'Keefe, Edward Steichen, Ernest Trova, Alexander Calder, and Buckminster Fuller to the project. They each created a poster beginning 'Save Our Planet' then with a secondary slogan concerning the protection of water, air, wilderness, wildlife, people, and in this example, cities. |
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| Accession number | E.137-1972 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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