20 Ottobre! [October 20!]

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20 Ottobre! [October 20!]
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  • Title :     20 Ottobre! [October 20!]
  • Artist:     Gino Boccasile Designer Unknown, Publisher
  • Accession:     XX1990.2275
  • Country:     Italy
  • Date:     1944
  • Dimensions:     Inches 46-3/8 33-1/4 2-1/2 Dimensions, framed Inches 39-1/4 27-5/8 Dimensions, sheet Inches 35-11/16 25-3/16 Dimensions, image, Centimeters 117.8 84.5 6.4 Dimensions, framed Centimeters 99.8 70.0 Dimensions, sheet Centimeters 90.7 64.1 Dimensions, image
  • Collection:     Object
  • Category:     Posters and Printed Ephemera
  • Collection Theme:     War and Political Propaganda
  • Subject:     Death , War/Military , Fascism , Children , Propaganda , World War II 1940-1945
  • Credit Line:     The Wolfsonian–Florida International University, Miami Beach, Florida, The Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. Collection
  • URL:     XX1990.2275.JPG
  • Tags:     War and Political Propaganda~Posters and Printed Ephemera
Description:
Ink on paper poster depicting rows of boys seated at desks taking a school exam as a skeletal hand reaches out of the sky towards their heads; superimposed on several U.S. military bomber aircraft flying above the hand; set against the Milan cathedral with pink sky in the background.