Asesinos! Quién al ver esto no empuña un fusil para aplastar al fascismo destructor--niños muertos en Madrid por las bombas facciosas, víctimas inocentes de esta horrible guerra desatada por los enemigos de España
Creator
Alliança d' Intellectuals per a Defensa de la Cultura Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (Spain) Gráficas Valencia Unión General de Trabajadores de España (Catalonia)
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DP269.15.A85 1936 Photographs show busts of eight dead children The Spanish Civil War is often characterized as a testing ground for new military technologies especially by German and Italian forces that fought on the side of Franco. Perhaps the most infamous of these "tests" was the indiscriminate bombing of the town of Guernica - the horror of what has been immortalized in Picasso's painting of the same name. In most cases, such as the bombings of Barcelona and Madrid, heavy bombardment was used to demoralize the Republican soldiers and population. In addition to destroying infrastructure, such bombing techniques led to the death of many civilians, especially women and children, on a scale that had not been experienced previously. As also seen in poster 82, images of children killed in such bombardments were used by Republican propagandists to motivate the population. Propagandists sought to use these graphic images of dead children to turn the Nationalist strategy on its head. In this case, the nationalists are referred to as "murderers" and the death of "innocent victims" is suggested as a motivation for taking up a rifle and fighting for the Republican cause. Behind the pictures, the revolutionary colors of red and black figure prominently in the background. While the artist of this image is unknown, we know that Gráficas Valencias, a prominent firm in the production of posters, produced the poster. The small text in the bottom right corner of the poster reads: "offered by the alliance of intellectuals for the defense culture." This gives further indication of the authorship of this poster. However, no specific information is available on this alliance. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) Valencia Spain, "Gráficas Valencia," intervenido U.G.T.-C.N.T. (sp)
Type
image
Format
1 print (poster) : 3 col. ; 100 x 77 cm
Form/Genre
Posters-Spain-1930-1939. Propaganda-Spain-1938.
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb29018650
Subject
War victims--Spain--Posters Anti-fascist movements--Spain--Catalonia--Posters War posters, Spanish Posters-Spain-1930-1939 Propaganda-Spain-1938 Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939--Casualties--Posters Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939--Posters Spain Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939--Children--Posters Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939--Propaganda
Place
Spain History Civil War, 1936-1939 Casualties Posters Children Propaganda
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