"Democracy - We Deliver," John Yates, 1993. From the current
exhibit at the Oakland Museum of California: All of Us or None:
Social Justice Posters of the San Francisco Bay Area
Capitalism: Denial of Human Rights  Kiyoshi Awazu - poster, 1975
"Although we have no detailed knowledge about the functions of
posters in our life today, at least the fact remains that they
are the live evidence of culture of each age. What makes the
street as the street should be are posters, and as a Polish
designer is saying, they are actually "the art of the street". I
think it is because we can have them at any place and any time,
not at such respectable place as at the exhibition-galleries but
in crowded place, in restaurants and tea-rooms, on dirty walls,
on windows, or as pin-ups in private rooms; they exist freely
and are pasted as if they were "exposed". Therefore, posters are
the origin of environment art, and at the same time they seem to
turn the street itself into a pop museum."