Rock Barricada
Artist
Designer Unknown
Datec. 1983
MediumSilkscreen
Dimensions25 x 19 in. (63.5 x 48.3 cm)
ClassificationsPoster
Credit LinePoster House Permanent Collection
Object numberPH.5674
DescriptionThe poster promotes a benefit concert for the people of El Salvador at the Danceteria nightclub in Chelsea, New York. The club had moved to 21st Street in 1982 and hosted numerous performers who established their careers during that decade, among them Madonna, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Duran Duran, Cyndi Lauper, and Barricada, a Spanish heavy-metal band. A caricatured President Ronald Reagan, dressed in cowboy gear, is shown dancing at the left. The other figure may be Alexander Haig, his secretary of state. The event was held to protest the Reagan administration's expanded military assistance to the government of El Salvador; this was in an effort to put down the leftist rebels that it perceived as a Soviet-backed Communist threat to South America. The policy had resulted in an escalation of military violence directed at the Salvadoran people.On View
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