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Article: The art of revolution: political posters in the RedPlanet archive.
- Article from:
- The La Trobe Journal
- Article date:
- September 22, 2005
- Author:
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HOW IS the impact of any social or artistic enterprise to be judged? On the one hand, as an organization, RedPlanet no longer exists, having been unable to secure a viable income source at a critical point in the late 1990s. On the other hand, the amalgamated histories of the two poster workshops that combined in 1992 to form RedPlanet (Redletter Community Workshop Inc. and Another Planet Posters) contributed almost 25 years of influential, accomplished and often ground-breaking poster production. Its survival as a community-based, alternative poster press in Melbourne, particularly when most other Australian poster presses had long dissolved or become commercial ...