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Sat, Oct 10, 2020 10:00AM EDT
Lot 190

French late 1960's Student Poster Be Young and Shut Up

Estimate: $250 - $500

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Popular Studio (French Protest Student Activists), Sois jeune et tais toi” (“Be young and shut up”), vintage poster, 35.5 x 27.5 inches, Created by art students, their visual quality was almost professional, and they depicted the burning issues of graphic creation in the late 1960s. This is true, for example, of a drawing of the outline of General de Gaulle, recognizable for his large nose and ears and for the kepi he was often shown wearing in cartoons, placing his hand over the mouth of a young man whose eyes are focused on the spectator, putting them on the spot. The text appearing alongside it, “Sois jeune et tais toi” (“Be young and shut up”), became the emblematic slogan of a generation of youth demanding the right to their opinions and to participation in university administration, as well as the country’s political sphere. Adapted or twisted, it would become a rallying cry for other causes, particularly feminist movements that ironically declaimed, “Sois belle et tais-toi” (“Be beautiful and shut up”). It was also taken up in 2016 by opponents of the El Khomri bill (the “labour bill”), under the slogan, “Sois jeune et bats toi” (“Be young and Struggle)
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