Two stickers in my collection focus on Nelson Mandela and anti-apartheid in South Africa. The first states “Stop Apartheid, Boycott Shell – Owen Bieber, UAW President and National CAP Chairman,” and the date 1985 is penciled on the back. Owen Bieber was then President of the American United Auto Workers Union and a strong Mandela supporter. In 1984, Bieber was even arrested in an anti-apartheid demonstration in DC. An article entitled “Campaign to Boycott Shell” in the United States Anti-Apartheid Newsletter (Vol. 1, No. 3, Spring 1986) describes Bieber’s role in the campaign and the call for “Shell and other…
I recently came across a U.S. political sticker from Iowa in 1926 that is one of the first of its kind, from what I’ve seen, that isn’t an I.W.W. Wobbly labor union stickerette (see previous posts on I.W.W. stickerettes). What’s interesting, however, is how Ralph Chaplin, a 1910s-era I.W.W. key artist/agitator, talked about printed labels on various fruit and vegetable cartons that helped inspire him to create political stickers. I’ll dig up those references for a later post.
Street Art Stickers: Selected Readings Akstinat, Simon. Wir sind die Guten. Berlin: Edition Braus Berlin GmbH, 2012. Amann, Marc. go.stop.act! Die Kunst des kreativen Straßenprotests–Geschichten-Aktionen-Ideen. Grafenau/Frankfurt: Trotzdem Verlag, 2011. Bates, Lindsay, “Bombing, Tagging, Writing: An Analysis of the Significance of Graffiti and Street Art”(2014). Theses (Historic Preservation). 570. Blackshaw, Ric, and Liz Farrelly. The Street Art Book: 60 Artists in Their Own Words. New York: Collins Design, 2008. Burkeman, DB, and Monica LoCascio. Stickers: From Punk Rock to Contemporary Art. New York: Rizzoli, 2010. Clough, Alice. Combating Urban Disengagement? Stickers as a Form of Street Art. London: University College London…
On the home front, Viggo, up close and personal (RIP, 2020).
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