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Len Breen & Juan Muñoz
The Culture of Fear
London, UK, 1978
The basic collage (part serigraph) of a typewriter (found by Juan in the refuse/pile of discarded images at the Central School of Art annex) and (part photomontage from Len's archive) 'a revolutionary', from the 1968 student demonstrations in Paris, was compiled by Len and Juan. [SEE: original 781206 below.] In the final design I created my hand-drawn version of the Paris scene into the design. The main text, taken from a 'The Poster Collective' poster of a poem by Ho Chi Minh, the Vietnamese Revolutionary leader, was reproduced with 'Letraset', as were the popular texts/slogans. I produced the final design which was finished in gouache. I later entered the poster for the Baghdad International Poster Competition/Exhibition 1979. Although the work was originally a cooperative collaboration and so entered into the competition in both our names, it was, for 'political reasons', and since another of my posters had already been given a 'Special Award', and in a begging request from the press officer of the Iraqi Cultural Centre (ICC), Kate Aldridge, to widen the international profile, credited solely to Juan. It was awarded a distinction and printed in a 10000 (estimated) offset run (and as a postcard) by the ICC in London. I (well) represented Juan on the trip to Baghdad! It was exhibited in London, Baghdad and touring in Europe and the Middle East. The original poster was later presented by me to the Iraq Museum of Modern Art through the Iraqi Cultural Centre in London. As I have discussed elsewhere, the 'imperialist invasion' of Iraq destroyed much of the contents of the museum, probably all our posters included - in a major statement of irony. See: |
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781206aThis is the original image [CAT: 781206a] used for the poster [CAT: 781206]. The typewriter, a screen print, is Juan's 'find'; the image of the 'Paris Revolutionary', is an ink drawn translation from Len's archive. 
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