2010.54.2053

• peace
• war

Poster has a light green and white image in the center of a large hall with wounded Civil War soldiers. Along the right side is a drawing of the gastrointestinal tract and a man standing above it smoking. The poster reads, "When the heavy lowering sky presses down like a lid on the moaning spirit, the prey of long despair, and when from the horizon embracing the whole circle it pours out a black light more sad than all nights; when the Earth is changed into a humid dungeion, where hope, like a bat, brushes the walls with its timid wing knocking its head on the rotting ceilings... ... the wounded one who is forgotten on the shores of a lake of blood, under a great pile of dead, and who dies without moving, in immense efforts. Baudelaire. This poster was included in Weege's portfolio of 25 prints titled "Peace is Patriotic" published by Shenanigan Press in Madison, Wisconsin. [LMC]