Belliol Jay (1 results)

No binding. Condition: Very good. Gradient silkscreen on paper. Belliol has adapted Goya's āSaturn Devouring His Sonā into a stark white figure, a grotesque allegorical image of America in 1970. Belliol created the poster while a student at Berkeley, just after the United States bombed Cambodia. The incident sparked a wave of poster-making on college campuses across the country, and Belliol spent much of the ensuing weeks gathering them and exhibiting them on the Berkeley campus. The decision to print the image onto computer paper was a practical oneā"it was all that was availableā"but in the ensuing years with the rise of the digital age and its tremendous, oftentimes insidious, influence upon world politics, the choice of substrate is all too prescient. That the paper was waste, with numbers printed on the verso, amplifies the 21st-century situation in which digital efforts and data centers consume energy resources indiscriminately, "eating" them up. Belliol did not apply his name to the poster because he believed it was part of the larger movement and belonged to that movement's mobilized activists. Some chipping along top edge, light creases at lower corners, else very good. (22 by 14 7/8 in.).