Gran Fury 'Read My Lips' Poster
Gran Fury (Artists' collective)
Read My Lips
Broadside, 1988
Gran Fury was an artistic and activist collective, closely associated with the AIDS activist organization ACT UP New York, that produced many of the graphics most associated with the movement, as well as art-world interventions. Gran Fury was known for appropriating images and tactics from advertising and popular culture and redeploying them to interrupt public space. The headline in this work, “Read My Lips,” transforms George H.W. Bush’s campaign promise not to raise taxes into a confrontational image to combat homophobia. The text and theme were used by Gran Fury in multiple images and contexts.
Holding Division: Manuscripts and Archives Division, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Archival Collection: ACT UP New York Records
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