Picture This! 659 Posters of social movements in Québec (1966 - 2007)

edited by Jean-Pierre Boyer, Jean Desjardins & David Widgington

--- bilingual edition ---

see table of contents

360 pages (includes 72 colour pages)

ISBN 978-0-9782474-2-3

We wish to thank le Centre de recherche en imagerie populaire, CKUT 90.3fm, Alain Reno, Katasoho and Publicité Sauvage for co-sponsoring our launch and poster!

Feb 13, 2008 BOOK LAUNCH at Montreal's Écomusée du fier monde. POSTER - audio

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now available at conundrum press

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for media coverage, click here

French language edition is available by Lux Éditeur

"The bilingual book's editors [...] have done an incredible job of gathering the marginal as well as the mainstream in a coherent, accessible whole. You won't find these images --or this truth-- anywhere else" Maisonneuve Magazine #27

These 659 posters, assembled for the first time in one album, offer a veritable journey through Québec’s social history and political imagination of the past four decades. This book is the result of a collaboration between the founders of the Centre de recherche en imagerie populaire (CRIP) and the publisher of Cumulus Press.

This collection of union, political, community, feminist, sociocultural and anti-globalization posters brings to our collective memory the popular struggles that have marked the history of social movements in Québec. It gives a voice to those who, through the strength of their commitment and creativity, have contributed to a more humane, just and democratic world.

These images taken from the streets are much more than a mirror of our combined aspirations: they are an invitation to move ever forward. The posters portray demanding, accusatory, irreverent and hopeful actions and offer as many original—sometimes radical—proposals on how to improve the lives of our society’s downtrodden, mistreated, exploited and marginalized groups and individuals.

A sample of 44 of the 659 posters in the book.

press release: Feb 05, 2008

MEDIA COVERAGE:

media type		media name	date	language
cultural bi-monthly	exposé	Applied Arts Magazine,	July	[en]
cultural quarterly	review	"Protest Aesthetic", Maisonneuve Magazine #27 - Spring 2008	May	[en]
cultural weekly	review	"Images des combats" by Denis Lord in ICI	Mar 20	[fr]
radio	interview	4 à 6 with Souis-René Beaudin CIBL with Jean-Pierre Boyer	Mar 5	[fr]
news weekly	review	"A wheat-paste history" by Misha Warbanski in The Link	Mar 3	[en]
news daily	review	"Le langage des murs" by Caroline Montpetit, Le Devoir.	Mar 1	[fr]
radio	interview	'Q' with Jian Gomeshi on CBC Radio 1 with David Widgington	Feb 28	[en]
print monthly	review	"Affiches des mouvements sociaux au Québec depuis 1966" Alternatives, Vol. 14 - No. 06	Feb 28	[fr]
radio	interview	Vous êtes ici on Radio-Canada with Jean-Pierre Boyer, Normand Baillargeon et Francis Dupuis-Déri	Feb 27	[fr]
blog	report	mention of the book on Drawn.ca	Feb 20	[en]
radio	discussion part 1, part 2	Radio Noon CBC Radio 1 (1:00-2:00pm) with David Widgington & Jean-Pierre Boyer	Feb 15	[en]
news weekly	article	"Poster book has punch" by Craig Silverman, Hour Magazine	Feb 14	[en]
radio	interview	Lendemain de la veille's Sophie Vaillancourt speaks with Marie Leclerc on CKUT 90.3 fm	Feb 13	[fr]
radio	interview	Radio Centre-Ville mercredi, 105,3 fm avec Jean-Pierre boyer	Feb 13	[fr]
radio	interview	Monday Morning After CKUT 90,3fm with David Widgington	Feb 11	[en]
radio	interview	Desautels à Radio-Canada interview with Jean-Pierre Boyer [culture]	Feb 07	[fr]
news weekly	review	"The Front" by Patrick Lejtenyi, The Montreal Mirror	Feb 07, 2008	[en]
radio	interview	Lendemain de la veille and Jean-Pierre Boyer, CKUT 90.3 fm	Dec 20, 2007	[fr]

Table of contents

foreword / préface
David Widgington
8

introduction / présentation
Jean-Pierre Boyer — Jean Desjardins
14

union posters / affiches syndicales
Introduction : André Leclerc
28

political posters / affiches politiques
Introduction : Normand Baillargeon
68

community posters / affiches populaires
Introduction : Marie Leclerc
96

feminist posters / affiches féministes
Introduction : Hélène Pedneault
136

pressure group posters / affiches des groupes de pression
Introduction : Francis Dupuis-Déri
166

/ Table des matières

international solidarity posters /
affiches de solidarité internationale
Introduction : Francine Néméh
214

cultural posters / affiches culturelles
Introduction : Malcolm Reid
246

artist posters / affiches d’artistes
Introduction : Kevin Yuen Kit Lo
286

anti-globalisation posters / affiches altermondialistes
Introduction : Roberto Nieto
310

acknowledgements / remerciements
350

biographies
351

acronyms and organizations / acronymes et organismes
355