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[003030] [Counterculture/Anti-Vietnam War]. In Every Government on Earth There is Some Trace of Human Weakness, Some Germ of Corruption and Degeneracy… Thomas Jefferson. ill. Weege, Wm.. San Francisco: Happening Press, 1967. First Edition. Atlas Folio. Unbound. Poster. Good. Single sided printed poster, approximately 480mm x 635mm in size.

Lightly creased, crease to bottom third with small tear to right hand margin, very light foxing mainly to borders, small scuff to top right hand corner, but generally quite bright and clean.

“The top half of the poster has a photographic image or movie still showing a large room full of costumed figures lying on the floor. The background of the bottom half of the poster is a pink and black topographical map. In the centre of the poster there is a large photographic image of a woman in lingerie she has the letters: “H A T E” tattooed on the fingers of her left hand. There is a white field that divides the poster across the centre horizontally and obscures the female figures pubic area. The field has a photo of a button with the text: “Kill For Peace / Kill For Freedom / Kill Vietnamese / Kill, Kill”, the rest of the field has the text: “In every government on earth there is some trace / of human weakness, some germ of corruption / and degeneracy…. Thomas Jefferson”. The female figures right leg is partially obscured by a round photographic image of a male figure dressed as an Egyptian Pharaoh and female figures in the foreground reaching up to him” (Oakland Museum of California).

William Weege was born in the US in 1935, he studied printmaking, collage and sculpture at the University of Wisconsin and is now Professor Emeritus at the UW-Madison Art Department