Artworkers Union Benefit Dance
1982. Colour screenprint, signed by Debenham and “Lucifoil Posters” [Collective] studio line in image lower right, 76.2 x 50.8cm. Linen-backed. Text continues “You’ve got to have a sense of humour post-Biennale depression. Tactics, Funny Stories, Ya Ya Choral. $4, Thursday Aug. 26th, 8pm. Trade Union Club, 111 Foveaux St, Surry Hills.” Held in NGA. This poster shows an image from neurologist Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne and photographer Adrien Tournachon’s 1862 book Mecanisme de la Physionomie Humaine (The Mechanism of Human Physiognomy), with a Transfield Pty Ltd caption on an electroshock machine. Transfield were sponsors of the Sydney Biennale from its establishment in 1973 until 2014. Ref: SBS, 7.4.2014; Wiki.
Item #CL197-150
Price (AUD): $1,450.00 other currencies