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TitleFree City
Author
PublisherFree City Collective
PlaceSan Francisco
Year
Date 110/1/1967
Date 2n.d., ca.
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MediumBroadside
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CatalogFC-1-012
CollectionSOLA-o; SS-o (MH)
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FC-1-012
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Abstract
As the parting image in Free City Set #1, this sheet recasts San Francisco itself as the terrain of a Free City imaginary, overlaying a street map with the large hand-drawn words FREE CITY and a central female figure poised like an emblem, muse, or tutelary spirit of the place. The belt or banner at her waist, bearing the word “NEWS” links that figure directly to the project of Free City as an alternative mode of communication, suggesting that the liberated city is not only inhabited but spoken, circulated, and imagined into being. The effect is both declarative and visionary: the existing grid of official geography is overlaid by a counter-map of freedom, desire, and collective possibility.
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