Catalogue Number
NMLH.1992.409.12.11
Object Name
Poster
Title
Artists for Democracy Festival Ariel Dorfman 'Cultural Repression in Chile'
People
Ariel Dorfman
Events
Chilean Coup; Artists for Democracy Festival
Date
1974
Description
Poster advertisingn the Artists for Democracy Festival, 1974
The poster shows a pencil sketch illustration of a person's head, with eyes covered and the covering padlocked shut, and lips padlocked together. Above gives the title of the show, "Ariel Dorfman 'Cultural Repression in Chile' Symposium on Latin American Culture 15 Oct 8pm Royal College of Art Kensington Gore SW7"
Ariel Dorfman was an Argentine-Chilean-American academic and human rights activist, who served as a cultural advisor to Salvador Allende before the Chilean Coup d'Etat. After fleeing Chile. he lived in France, the Netherlands, and the United States of America.
