A vintage poster by Portland graphic designer Steven Birch with the image of Malcolm X and the phrase "Fight the Power!". Inspiration likely came from the band Public Enemy, who were touring the states in 1988-1990 with the release of their albums "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back" and "Fear of a Black Planet". The song "Fight the Power" originally appeared on the soundtrack of Spike Lee's film "Do the Right Thing" and later on "Fear of a Black Planet". Printed on heavier, glossy paper stock.....
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A concert poster for Iggy Pop with special guest Nash the Slash at the Pine Street Theater in Portland on November 17, 1982.

Condition: Good-, multiple pinholes and staple holes (80 or more, likely from being on a bulletin board); edgewear and some creasing along top edge with about 4-5 closed tears up to .5" along the top edge; some toning to paper around edges.
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An original invitation card to the Interview Magazine hosted release party for "Andy Warhol's Party Book" held August 24, 1988 at the M.K. Club at 204 Fifth Avenue in New York City. With alcohol provided by Absolut, of course. The book was published by Crown in 1988 after the artist's death (Warhol died in 1987), and was co-authored by Pat Hackett. Handwritten inside the card in pen is "Non-transferrable. Must RSVP to be admitted". Please note: this is an invitaiton card to the party for the book's release - it.....
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The exhibition announcement card for "ALife: Shop" a pop-up project featuring 60 artists at Deitch Projects Gallery in New York City. The card mimics Andy Warhol's famous Campbell's soup can and inspiration for the art shop came from Keith Haring’s Pop Shop of the 1980s. Alife was/is a NYC collective and artist's agency.Some of the participating artists were Kaws, Brendan Fowler, Doze, Dynamo/Keith and Alisa Dynamo, Ed Templeton, Galaxia,HUGA/Green Lady, Neverstop/Caterina deCarlo, Ryan McGinness, Shepard Fairey, Space Invader, Tommy Guerrero, Toy Group 360, Twist and Young Kim.

Condition: Near Fine.....
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An original, circa 1969 pinback button featuring activist, revolutionary and co-founder of the Black Panther Party, Huey Newton holding a rifle with the demand: "ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE". Likely made and distributed by the Black Panther Party. This button was recently included in an exhibit at the Oakland Museum of California, and the consignor's original loan tag is included.

Condition: Very Good, light scratching to surface; rusting/oxidation wear to back of pin due to age.
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An exquisite collection of 64 original watercolor drawings and artworks by Karl Walton Kenyon of fish, marine and bird wildlife, created in the Asia Pacific during wartime deployment, circa 1941-1966. Many are draw to scale from life examples caught by hand. A large number of examples are signed with notes related to their locality, scale, species (if known), and often including the date and other related remarks i.e. "Espiritu Santo, tidepool, 5x life size, painted from life, June 5 1944 (signed)" or "(signed) May 24, 1944 near Guadalcanal, flew aboard.....
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A wonderful collection of 18 pochoir-printed plates from the Paris fashion magazine, La Gazette du Bon Ton, dated from 1920-1922. Published by Les Éditions Lucien Vogel of Paris and The Field Press Ltd. of London. The magazine was published from 1912-1925 (with a hiatus during WWI) and featured exquisitely printed illustrations of the latest fashions using the pochoir printing process, in which stencils were created for the various spot colors and the plates hand-stenciled in vibrant inks - a precursor to silkscreen printing and achieving a similar effect.Fashion designers and houses.....
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The big book on Connors covering works by the abstract painter with a sustainted interest in color and form, grids, framing devices, geometric compositions, and drawing on the history of painting and processes, particularly minimalism and abstraction. Published in an edition of 1,000 copies.

Condition: New.
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The oversize exhibition poster for an Ad Reinhardt exhibit at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart Museum in April/June of 1985. Photo by Walter Rosenblum of Reinhardt, circa 1955, in his New York studio. Reinhardt died in 1967.

Condition: Near Fine.
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A poster advocating for rent control in the San Francisco Bay area, with references to a rent control initiative of 1975. With a cartoon of the thumb of "High Rents, Bad Conditions and Arbitrary Evictions" pressing down on the tenants. With a union printing bug.

Condition: Very Good-, some creasing to poster.
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A collection of interviews with two recently released Attica prisoners, plus with several others still incarcerated that prison administrators had deemed "leaders" of the rebellion that ended with 43 dead in 1971. Includes a list of demands for the prisoners' defense, plus a chronology of events leading up to and shortly after the revolt. With black and white photographs and artwork throughout. In a custom-made protective mylar jacket.

Condition: Fine.
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An early issue of the influential NY style magazine, PAPER, when it was still an XL oversized, black and white, fold-out double-sided one-sheet. A "world to go" themed issue with features on the multitude of ethnic influences on New York culture. Great design and with ads by Manolo Blahnik, Agnes B. and Ted Muehling, among others.

Condition: Very Good, some toning and light scuffing; bump to one corner.
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The event poster for the March 15, 1967 benefit at San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium for the Zen Mountain Center with readings by the poet and longtime Buddhist Gary Snyder, and with a performance by the musical group Mahalia Mandalagraphy. Printed with the title of Snyder's epic poem "Mountains and Rivers Without End"

Condition: Good-, with 3.5" loss/damage to lower left corner (see detail photo); some light edgewear and slight crease along top.
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