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| Call Number: |
2618 |
| Identifier: |
AL2446_2618 |
| Title: |
NOW YOU HAVE TOUCHED THE WOMEN YOU HAVE STRUCK A ROCK:YOU HAVE DISLODGED A BOULDER;YOU WILL BE CRUSHED. |
| Date: |
August 1981 |
| Subject: |
Images of Defiance- IOD;
MEDU ART ENSEMBLE;
women |
| Description: |
This poster is silkscreened in marbled black with green and yellow. It features the image of a woman holding up a piece of broken chain. The text reads: "NOW YOU HAVE TOUCHED THE WOMEN YOU HAVE STRUCK A ROCK:YOU HAVE DISLODGED A BOULDER;YOU WILL BE CRUSHED : 9 AUGUST: S.A. WOMEN'S DAY" Digitised by Specialised Archival Solutions in 2009. Reproduced in "Images of Defiance: South African Resistance posters in the 1980s" on page 11 (number 15) of the 1991 SAHA / Ravan Press edition and the 2004 SAHA / STE Publishers edition. It also appears on page 122 of “Red on Black: The Story of the South African Poster Movement”, SAHA / STE Publishers, 2007.Additionally this poster can be found in the SAHA Exhibition Kit, under Women. Duplicate poster: AL2446_3580. |
| Creator: |
Judy Seidman (MEDU ART ENSEMBLE) |
| Type: |
Poster |
| Format: |
Access image – jpeg
Preservation image – tiff
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| Source: |
SAHA Collection AL2446 |
| Language: |
English |
| Coverage: |
South Africa |
| Rights: |
Copyright of some materials are held by individual postermakers/organisations. Copyright restrictions may apply. See SAHA copyright statement for more information. |
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