Poster, America Today, ca. 1970

George Maciunas

ca. 1970

lithograph on paper

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

In the form of the American flag; a blue rectangle at left upper corner, with the words “AMERICA TODAY” repeated four times in white, “today” flanked by pictograms of bomb shells. On a light background, in red text to mimic the flag’s characteristic stripes: “Starting November 30th Film-Maker’s distribution center presents America Today programme one. A new series of journalistic film programmes reflecting the social, political and moral climate of our time. The feelings, issues, and events of the day as seen by today’s independent film-makers. Not since ‘the march of time’ has there been a new series of journalistic films made avai