144 pages 26,8 x 19,5 cm Language: French Paperback Publisher: Gallimard 2012
“The newspaper is a printed object; the poster is an act. An act is worth more than the written word.” Affiche-Action sets out to explore political practices through the poster, too often reduced since the beginning of the twentieth century to image-based propaganda. Let us not forget that it is also a form of writing, cast in typefaces and designed for public display. An effective tool of government in times of emergency and crisis, the poster becomes a privileged medium for debate, for proposing ideas, for opposition, or for resistance. The Paris Commune stands out as a key moment in this history, closely bound up with that of democracies—from the French Revolution, when a rain of opinions was displayed throughout the city, to today’s revolutions, where the Internet carries the street.
