Jo-Jo-La Colombe
Artist
Designer Unknown
Printer
Imp. Spéciale de Paix et Liberté
France
Datec. 1951
Dimensions30 1/4 x 21 1/2 in. (76.8 x 54.6 cm)
ClassificationsPoster
Credit LineGift of Peter A. Blatz
Object numberPH.221
DescriptionThis is an anti-Communist propaganda poster issued by the French organization Paix and Liberté (Peace and Liberty) to promote its belief that world peace was threatened by Communism. The brutish, tattooed figure, “Jo-Jo the Dove,” holding a chain mace (spiked ball on a chain) in one hand and a dove on a string in the other, is a caricature of Josef Stalin. The dove is based on the peace dove designed in a lithograph by Picasso for the International Peace Congress held in Paris in 1949. It was adopted by Peace and Liberty in the early 1950s in much of its imagery.On View
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