Cenzurze
Artist
Czeslaw Bielecki
Poland, born 1948
Printer
Instytut Wydawniczy Zwiazkow Zawodowych
Poland
Date1981
Dimensions27 1/4 x 18 1/2 in. (69.2 x 47 cm)
ClassificationsPoster
Credit LineGift of Peter A. Blatz
Object numberPH.21
DescriptionBielecki made this design in 1969 but it was not printed as a poster until 1981 during the early part of the Solidarity movement. The designer, political activist, writer, and publisher was a member of the new Solidarity union. He was also the head of one of Poland's largest independent publishing houses, CDN (an acronym for "To Be Continued") during this decade, and therefore subject to several arrests and imprisonment by the regime. The books and underground magazines produced by CDN made him especially vunerable to investigation and attack. His extremely minimalist design here, featuring only the word Cenzurze (Censorship) against a blank ground, serves as a very literal commentary on the effects of such attempts at cultural erasure.On View
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