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Alternative Title
Bang 1 Poster
Date
1964
Description
Hand painted poster for the first Bang Arts Festival or Spring Arts Festival at the Richmond Professional Institute, held in 1964. The painting contains a frame, with "BANG BANG BANG ETC." written in the center with black text on a purple background, with a gold frame. At the top of the frame, "RPI" is written. In the top left and right corners, the dates of the festival appear: "April 6 to April 12" At the bottom is a list of events: "BANG - Jesse Fuller - BANG - Electronic Music Bob Ashley/Gordon Mumma - BANG - Pop Art Symposium - BANG - Happening - BANG BANG - Print & Photo Exhibit - BANG BANG - Film Festival - BANG - Play Paul Cherry - BANG - Found Object Show…ETC” The background is painted red with white polka dots around the frame.
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Content is digitally accessible 2024.
Personal Name Subject
Ashley, Robert, 1930-2014; Mumma, Gordon, 1935-; Fuller, Jesse
Corporate Name Subject
Richmond Professional Institute
Topical Subject
Arts festivals; Performing arts festivals; Art in universities and colleges; Art, American -- 20th century -- History; College students' art; Theater; Composers; Music--Performance; Performing arts; Pop art
City/Location
Richmond (Va.)
Genre
posters
Local Genre
art
Type
Still Image
Digital Format
image/jpg
Language
eng
Rights Statement URL
Rights
This material is protected by copyright, and copyright is held by VCU. You are permitted to use this material in any way that is permitted by copyright. In addition, this material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Acknowledgment of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.
Collection
Bang Arts Festival, Richmond Professional Institute, 1964-1967
Source
Bang Bang Bang Etc., Bang Arts Festival 1964, Richard Carlyon Papers, Accession 2016.07.150, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University.
File Name
M442_poster_009.jpg