Le Bookiniste

[Brezhnev and Reagan]

[Romero, Rachael] [artist]

[San Francisco]: San Francisco Poster Brigade, 1982.

Reagan and Brezhnev like you've never seen them! A rare poster of the San Francisco Poster Brigade, depicting the Soviet and American leaders with noses in the shape of missiles.

In 1975, Rachael Romero and Leon Klayman founded the Wilfred Owen Brigade, named for a World War I antiwar poet, to promote social justice and left-wing political causes through the art of posters. They changed the name of their group to the San Francisco Poster Brigade in 1977 and remained active into the early 1980s. Romero was the group's principal artist.

“Their posters touch upon many elements that make art very important, first of all they do not do their posters for money, second they can be found pasted on the walls throughout the bay area covering different subjects, messages and issues with a sense of urgency & immediacy. It is art with a purpose & skill that catches the eye of their street audience and plants thoughts in their heads. Thus the different dynamics of honesty, skill, love and commitment go into their work which could be a model used throughout the country as a new media. The subject matter in the posters speaks for itself, and the arts request that the posters be displayed in windows, laundromats, places where you work or gather to add a dimension of utility.” — René Yanez, writing in Tin Tan (Issue Number 3, Spring 1976).

OCLC shows no institutional holdings of this poster. RARE.

PROVENANCE: Leon Klayman Collection.

PHYSICAL DETAILS: Lithographic offset, 11 x 8.5 inches (278 x 216 mm). Signed “SFPB 1982” in pencil in bottom right corner.

CONDITION: Small crease to bottom left of border, not affecting the image. Near Fine. Item #3027

Price: $250.00