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Mass appeals: Christine Mehring on the art of Thomas Bayrle.

From: Artforum International  |  Date: 4/1/2007  |  Author: Mehring, Christine

On the night of April 11, 1968, Thomas Bayrle and two friends, Bernhard Jager and Uve Schmidt, were busy in a basement print shop in Frankfurt, producing a poster of German student leader Rudi Dutschke. Earlier that afternoon, Dutschke, the prime mover behind the West German Extraparliamentary Opposition, known by the acronym APO, had been shot by a presumed right-wing extremist. The poster responded directly to the three bullets that were fired: THE REVOLUTION DOES NOT DIE FROM LEAD ...

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