The first major exhibition of the University鈥檚 AIDS Education Posters highlights the role of poster art during the global epidemic.
Thought-provoking. Myth-busting. Visually arresting. Painfully blunt.
However you describe it, the new exhibit presented by the (MAG) and the (RCL) at the 人妻少妇专区 captures the creative lengths taken to prevent and mitigate the tragedy and destruction caused by the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Up Against the Wall: Arts, Activism, and the AIDS Poster is the first major exhibition of the University鈥檚 , donated by Edward C. Atwater 始50 in 2007. Housed in the Department of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, the collection holds more than 8,000 posters from around the world, making it one of the largest of its kind in the world.
Featuring 165 posters, Up Against the Wall illustrates the range of strategies public health and advocacy groups took to inform and influence people to protect themselves and others from the deadly virus. The exhibit is split into two sections: 鈥淩aising Awareness,鈥� posters that inform and target myths and misinformation, and 鈥淎cting Up,鈥� posters that advocate for personal responsibility and aim to inspire safe behavior.
Up Against the Wall is on display until June 19.
More about the collection, exhibition, and related events
Artist and activist Avram Finkelstein gives a lecture on his new book, After Silence: A History of AIDS through Its Images, as part of the Neilly Author Series.
Meet collector, physician, and medical historian Edward C. Atwater 始50 (1926鈥�2019), the professor emeritus of medicine at the 人妻少妇专区 Medical Center who donated the AIDS Education Posters collection.
To extend the life of Up Against the Wall: Art, Activism, and the AIDS Poster beyond its physical exhibition at the Memorial Art Gallery, a book by the same name was created.
