Vintage Anti-Racist Poster, 1968 for sale at Pamono

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Print on paper. Rare anti-racist poster which, as per the wording below, was published as a supplement to ‘MAI’ magazine in June ’68 , in the series ‘MAI’s posters by Gi’ (Giorgio Tavaglione). It is a manifesto of the beat movements that spread in Italy in the years 1967-1968: thanks to the use of the mimeograph, which allowed the self-publishing of a great number of leaflets, posters, poetic anthologies, small plaquettes and, above all, magazines, young beatniks created an alternative channel of information that represented the primary vehicle for spreading the principles that animated the beat movement, as opposed to the official cultural and communication circuits. Within the magazines, and in the various beat activities in general, poetry writing assumed an essential role as an integral part of the practice of dissent, since it represented one of the main forms of expression and affirmation of a different ideal of life, as well as a different idea of collectivity. Giorgio Tavaglione was one of the best-known artistic exponents of the beat movement: as a complete self-taught Gi drew the posters, flyers and covers of the first Italian underground magazines of the 1960s; disappeared for years after a trip to India , he later reappeared as a designer of tarot cards and talismans in the realization of which he transferred his excellent graphic quality, his typical meticulous and imaginative, esoteric and visionary style.Framed work.