Que fais-tu pour empecher cela? – Historic Print
![Que fais-tu pour empecher cela?, Madrid : Junta Delegada de Defensa de Madrid, Ministerio de Propaganda, [between 1936 and 1939] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a8/a8734fad9286-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Que fais-tu pour empecher cela? comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Its French-language title, "Que fais-tu pour empêcher cela?" ("What are you doing to prevent this?"), asks the viewer to act against the air attacks on civilians shown in the subject headings: mothers and children threatened from the sky. The poster was issued by the Junta Delegada de Defensa de Madrid and the Ministry of Propaganda of the Spanish Republic during the Civil War, which lasted from 1936 to 1939. Madrid, the Republican capital, was bombed repeatedly from late 1936, and posters like this one were used to rally support for civil defense and the war effort. The Library of Congress holds several editions in different languages and sizes, which suggests the appeal was meant to reach audiences beyond Spain.
| Created / published | Madrid : Junta Delegada de Defensa de Madrid, Ministerio de Propaganda, [between 1936 and 1939] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : offset lithograph, color ; 81 x 56 cm. |
| Genre | War posters Spanish 1930-1940.Offset lithographs Color 1930-1940. |
| Notes | Carteles de la Republica, no. 241; Palette and the flame, p. 13; Plakat Republikanskiej Hiszpani, no. 132. Another issue: POS - SP. CIV. WAR - .S64, no. 1 (C size (C size)) (same image; text in English; 81 x 56); POS - SP. CIV. WAR - .S64, no. 1a (B size) (same image; text in English ; 40 x 27 cm.); POS - SP. CIV. WAR - .S64, no. 1b (C size) (same image; text in Spanish ; 81 x 56 cm.); POS - SP. CIV. WAR - .S64, no. 1d (B size) (same image; text in French ; 40 x 27 cm.). Promotional goal: Sp. J4. 1936//Sp. J46. 1936. Forms part of: Spanish Civil War posters at the Library of Congress. |
| Subjects | Mothers & children--Spain--1930-1940. Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939--Air operations. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,805 × 4,706 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220938 |
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