IGNORANCE = FEAR, SILENCE = DEATH Fight AIDS ACT UP Poster, 1989

Summary

ACT UP is an advocacy group focused on improving AIDS awareness, treatment, prevention, and public policy. Artist Keith Haring was active in LGBTQ rights movements. His dancing figures mimic the "see no / hear no / speak no evil" proverb, referencing the need to grow visibility for the disease. Haring died from AIDS-related complications soon after this poster was created.

ACT UP is an advocacy group focused on improving AIDS awareness, treatment, prevention, and public policy. Artist Keith Haring was active in LGBTQ rights movements. His dancing figures mimic the "see no / hear no / speak no evil" proverb, referencing the need to grow visibility for the disease. Haring died from AIDS-related complications soon after this poster was created.

Artifact

Poster

Date Made

1989

 On Exhibit

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

2019.103.1

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Printing (Process)

Color

Black (Color)
Blue
Red
Yellow (Color)
Pink (Color)

Dimensions

Height: 24.5 in

Width: 43 in

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