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Think Positive: Day Without Art. The 5th International Day of Action and Mourning in Response to the AIDS CrisisNew York: Visual AIDS, 1993. Offset. 36 x 24 in. Bumping and wear to edges and corners, lower right corner chipped, light discoloration from age.Poster for the Day Without Art of 1993 that took place on the 5th International Day of Action and Mourning in Response to the AIDS Crisis.Day Without Art was an annual event where art institutions and other organizations organize programs and actions to raise awareness of AIDS, remember those who had passed, and take action.Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item.

Think Positive: Day Without Art [AIDS crisis awareness poster]

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[d.a. levy]legalize levy[Cleveland]: np, ca 1967. Offset. 23 ½ x 17 ½ in. Minor toning.A poster from the “legalize levy” campaign, which advocated for the dismissal of countercultural poet d. a. levy’s obscenity charges. Following levy’s 1967 arrest on charges of “contributing to the delinquency of a minor” at a poetry reading, his supporters protested the city’s reactionary policing by producing posters, flyers, t-shirts, and buttons proclaiming, “legalize levy,” and featuring the poet’s iconic visage.Exceedingly rare.Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item.

[d.a. levy] — Legalize Levy

Cotton Club RevueWichita, KS: Crawford Theatre, ca. 1940s. Screenprint. 22 x 14 in. Light bumping to corners and right edge, light toning from age, else a very nice copy.Screenprinted poster promoting the Cotton Club Revue at the Crawford Theatre in Wichita, Kansas. The Cotton Club Revue was the house show of the Cotton Club, the famous Harlem venue that launched the career of prominent Black jazz musicians such as Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, and Billie Holiday. Infamously, however, the Club operated during the Jim Crow era: it was at first a whites-only nightclub that featured mostly Black performers, drawing public critique from Black writers and intellectuals, such as Langston Hughes. In this example, the Revue is on tour in the Midwest.&nbsp;Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item.

[New York Jazz] — Cotton Club Revue

New Mobilization Committee to End the War on Vietnam [New MOBE]March on Washington November 15. End the War. Get Out Now!Washington, D.C.: New Mobilization Committee to End the War on Vietnam, [1969]. Offset. 24 x 18 in. A bit toned, some cockling.Union-made poster for the November 15, 1969 march on Washington, an event that turned the protests against the Vietnam War into a mass movement. This second anti-war moratorium saw a turnout much greater than expected, with more than 750,000 people participating in the demonstration on the National Mall.This poster’s prominent image of a hand forming a peace sign and its clear slogans—“Stop the war! Stop the war machine! Stop the death machine!”—underscore the objective of the march.Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item.

March on Washington November 15. End the War. Get Out Now!

New Mobilization Committee to End the War on Vietnam [New MOBE]March Against Death March on Washington [Picasso reproduction]&nbsp;Washington, D.C.: The New Mobilization Committee, 1969. Offset. 15 x 23 1/4 in. Small tears and chips to extremities.&nbsp;Anti-war poster promoting a march agains the Vietnam war, and featuring a reproduction of a Picasso painting, published by The New Mobilization Committee (New MOBE) with permission of the artist. The New MOBE was an organization formed after the disbandment of the National Mobilization Committee, being a coalition of various groups against the Vietnam War.Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item.

March Against Death, March on Washington [Picasso reproduction]

Felix BeltránRed and Black Duotone Che GuevaraLa Habana: Instituto Cubano de Amistad con los Pueblos (ICAP), 1967. Serigraph on thick stock, with holograph on verso. Edition size of 200. 16 ½ x 21 ¾ in. Edges lightly bumped, and light foxing to upper margin.A rare and stunning depiction of Guevara, printed in Cuba and designed by "the father of the Cuban poster."Duotone poster of Che Guevara’s iconic Guerrillero Heroico portrait rendered in red and black stripes; published by the Instituto Cubano de Amistad con los Pueblos (ICAP) [Cuban Institute for Friendship with the People], a socialist enterprise dedicated to establishing international solidarity between the Cuban people and the world.&nbsp;The poster was designed by Felix Beltrán, considered the father of the Cuban poster, as he was responsible for the modernist institutional image of the Cuban Revolution for over twenty years. He designed such recognizable pieces as this duo-tone rendition of Alberto Korda’s definitive photograph of the Guerrillero Heroico, and the widely circulated “Libertad para Angela Davis” OSPAAAL poster in technicolor.Beltrán began his career in graphic design working for the global advertising company McCann-Erickson in New York at age 15; there, he studied under Theodor Adorno and Erich Fromm. By 1962, he returned to Cuba to apply his learning to the Revolution, setting to work the techniques he learned from the U.S. advertising enterprise against itself and for the creation of a revolutionary consciousness and a new mode of popular art; becoming the head graphic designer for the propaganda department of the Communist Party of Cuba in the process. By the 1980s, with the crisis in Cuba arising from dwindling Soviet support, he exiled himself to Mexico (a decision some read as abandonment), where he became a teacher and commercial designer. Beltrán died in December 2022; a retrospective of his career, Felix Beltrán Inteligencia Visual, was posthumously exhibited in the Complutense Art Centre in Madrid in January 2023.“The poster could circulate in countries where a functionary was not allowed to otherwise speak about the ideas of the [Cuban] revolution.”Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item.

Felix Beltrán — Red and Black Duotone Che Guevara

Antonio Fernández ReboiroChe Comandante AmigoLa Habana:&nbsp;Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematografica (ICAIC),&nbsp;[1978]. Serigraph. 30 x 20 in. Closed tear to upper margin (~1 ½ in), light edge wear and toning commensurate with age.A vibrant, Cuban poster designed by Antonio Fernández Reboiro for Che Comandante Amigo, the 1978 film directed by Bernabé Hernández, and produced by the Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográfica (ICAIC).Released 10 years after his death, Che Comandante Amigo is a biographical sketch of Guevara inspired and based on the homonymous poem by Nicolás Guillén. Under the auspices of the Cuban Revolution, the designer Reboiro began working for ICAIC in 1963; he designed many film posters in a modernist spirit, exhibiting the high aesthetic commitments of the Revolution.A later reprint was produced from the original plates in the 1990s by ICAIC; the present copy is an example from the rarely seen 1978 first printing.Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item.

Antonio Fernández Reboiro — Che Comandante Amigo

Che G[ue]vara is Dead ... Long Live Guevara / While Dad’s Away, Mum Will PlayLondon: Oz Magazine, [1968]. Offset on both recto and verso. 32 x 20 in. Four fold lines from folding into eighths, and four open tears (&lt; 1 ½ in.) along folds at outer margins, where the poster was originally stapled to the magazine; these tears have given the poster a slight hourglass shape.Rare two-sided poster published in Oz Magazine no. 8, issued in January 1968, two months after the death of Che Guevara. The first side of the poster was surely meant to be a psychedelic homage to the revolutionary, but notoriously printed a gruesome picture of the dead revolutionary and misspelled his name. The caption under a color halftone photograph of his corpse and printed eulogy reads, “Geuvara is Dead … Long Live Geuvara!” A wholly unrelated sex-cum-swingers-cum-psychedelic-porn poster, “While Dad’s Away, Mums Will Play,” is printed on verso.Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item.

[Oz Magazine, 1968] — G[ue]vara is Dead ... Long Live G[ue]vara!

[Osvaldo Salas]Black-and-white Che posterNew York: Lyle Stuart, Inc., 1968. Offset. 28 ⅛ x 22 ⅛ in.Poster of Che Guevara as photographed by Osvaldo Salas, published shortly after his death by Lyle Stuart, an American gambler, casino-owner, and notorious publisher of controversial books, including both The Anarchist Cookbook and The Turner Diaries,&nbsp;also known for his exceptionally loud sex life.An arresting poster&nbsp;of Guevara that traces&nbsp;the haste with which image-peddlers seized on Che’s likeness after his death.Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item..

Think Positive: Day Without Art [AIDS crisis awareness poster]

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