Artwork Title: Black Power / White Power

Black Power / White Power, 1967

Tomi Ungerer

Artwork Title: Black Power / White PowerArtwork Title: Black Power / White Power
“Black Power/White Power” is arguably the ultimate statement on US race relations, then and now. “Acerbic criticism of foundering social values requires explicitness . . . Ungerer meets the requirements . . . with a savagely frontal image” (Images of an Era, p. 17). ...a poster which cleverly attacked both white racism and reverse black racism... (https://www.typotheque.com/articles/tomi_ungerer_a_childhood_under_the_nazis) (http://www.postersplease.com/component/k2/item/82162-) Black Power/White Power, with its Kama Sutra suggestion of simultaneous fellatio, has an undeniable sexual undercurrent, but Ungerer also addressed the sexual revolution head-on, assimilating the fluid line and stark patterning of Aubrey Beardsley in wildly phallocratic drawings of baroque pleasure devices and mechanical means of penetration. ((http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2015/02/05/tomi-ungerer-brash-bold-insolent/) )
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