Be Realistic…Demand the Impossible: Boston Museum of Fine Arts School, 1970. From a collection of antiwar and political posters produced by a commune at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School from May through June 1970. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Be Realistic…Demand the Impossible: Boston Museum of Fine Arts School, 1970.

From a collection of antiwar and political posters produced by a commune at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School from May through June 1970.

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Be Realistic…Demand the Impossible: Boston Museum of Fine Arts School, 1970. From a collection of antiwar and political posters produced by a commune at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School from May through June 1970. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Be Realistic…Demand the Impossible: Boston Museum of Fine Arts School, 1970.

From a collection of antiwar and political posters produced by a commune at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School from May through June 1970.

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

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The poster, we know, is ephemeral. Just as the newspaper is thrown away after being read, the poster is torn, ripped, pulled off, covered over, replaced, forgotten – after having filled its function: to inspire a certain reaction from he who looks at it. To discover not the literal but the implicit intention of posters is to examine human behavior and history.

Past Poster Present takes American posters of protest from the late 60's and early 70's and gives them new life by putting them back up on the walls that flank our streets. Do these posters, signposts that tell us much about where we have been, offer us any clues as to where we are going? Do they acquire new meaning when they are taken out of the history books and put back on the street? Are they proof that we inhabit a "postmodern condition" that has allegedly blurred the boundaries of the cultural and the political?

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