Catalogue Number
NMLH.1994.168.577
Object Name
Poster
Title
Festival for Chilean Resistance
People
Salvador Allende Augusto Pinochet
Events
Chilean Coup d'etat
Date
1974
Description
This is a poster made to look like the Chilean flag advertising a festival for Chilean resistance, a fundraiser organised by Artists for Democracy at the Royal College of Art in October 1974. The event was run in aid of left wing activists who were being persecuted under Pinochet's regime following the military coup that outed socialist president Salvador Allende's Popular Unity government in 1973. The red part of the flag features detail and information about the event whilst the white part features an illustration of a woman holding a young boy holding a bird. Three knives are depicted on the left hand side of the poster. Condition: good
