Chilean Ephemera Collection
Collection
Identifier: PICT-2012-011
Scope and Content
The Chilean Ephemera Collection has three series. The first contains ephemeral materials documenting the 2011 Chilean student protests. The second series contains 32 posters by Chilean artist Guillermo Nuñez. The third contains 23 arpilleras.
Series 1: Chilean Student Protest Materials 2011
Series 1 is comprised of materials related to the 2011 student protests that took place across Chile against perceived inequalities in Chile’s educational system. Using propaganda to target the Chilean government and its acceptance of for-profit educational institutions, the students produced materials such as photocopied pamphlets, fliers, and screen printed art that was distributed to disseminate their ideas and organize mass protests. The series also includes photographs of protest activities.
A 2014 addition of stencil and screen printed art, and photocopied fliers is in box 3.
Series 2: Guillermo Nuñez Posters 1970-1998
Series 2 is comprised of a series of 32 posters by Chilean artist Guillermo Nuñez that contains exhibition announcements as well as activist-oriented prints featuring the poetry of Pablo Neruda and Paul Éluard. The series also includes posters depicting the Pinochet-era Villa Grimaldi concentration camp, where Nuñez underwent incarceration and torture in the mid-1970s.
Series 3: Chilean Arpilleras 1970s-1980s
Series 3 is comprised of 23 textile arpilleras donated by Beverly Joy-Karno. The pieces were purchased directly from the women who lost family and friends during the military dictatorship. 7 pieces are from the women’s workshop, MACUL. MACUL was the first urban women’s workshop formed by the wife of President Frei, María Ruiz-Tagle. The themes are pacific.
Series 1: Chilean Student Protest Materials 2011
Series 1 is comprised of materials related to the 2011 student protests that took place across Chile against perceived inequalities in Chile’s educational system. Using propaganda to target the Chilean government and its acceptance of for-profit educational institutions, the students produced materials such as photocopied pamphlets, fliers, and screen printed art that was distributed to disseminate their ideas and organize mass protests. The series also includes photographs of protest activities.
A 2014 addition of stencil and screen printed art, and photocopied fliers is in box 3.
Series 2: Guillermo Nuñez Posters 1970-1998
Series 2 is comprised of a series of 32 posters by Chilean artist Guillermo Nuñez that contains exhibition announcements as well as activist-oriented prints featuring the poetry of Pablo Neruda and Paul Éluard. The series also includes posters depicting the Pinochet-era Villa Grimaldi concentration camp, where Nuñez underwent incarceration and torture in the mid-1970s.
Series 3: Chilean Arpilleras 1970s-1980s
Series 3 is comprised of 23 textile arpilleras donated by Beverly Joy-Karno. The pieces were purchased directly from the women who lost family and friends during the military dictatorship. 7 pieces are from the women’s workshop, MACUL. MACUL was the first urban women’s workshop formed by the wife of President Frei, María Ruiz-Tagle. The themes are pacific.
Dates
- 1970-2011
- Majority of material found within 1970-1998, 2011
Language of Materials
Spanish
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Copy Restrictions
Duplication of print and photographic material is allowed for research purposes. User is responsible for copyright compliance. For more information see the Photographs and Images Research Guide and contact the Pictorial Archivist.
History
The Chilean Ephemera Collection combines three series of protest materials relating to the late twentieth-century dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990) and the legacy of his government’s policies that prompted tens of thousands of young Chilean students to participate in a number of protests between 2011 and 2012. The first series contains a number of photographs, leaflets, posters, prints, and stencils created during the student protests against market-oriented Chilean educational policies in 2011. Many of these materials were created using silk-screen, stenciling, and photocopying techniques intended for wide distribution among the protests’ participants. The second series contains poster prints by renowned Chilean artist Guillermo Nuñez—imprisoned by the dictatorship for a time in 1974—which depict events featuring Nuñez as well as prints and hand-produced pieces featuring the poetry of Pablo Neruda and Paul Éluard. The third series contains 23 textile arpilleras donated by Beverly Joy-Karno. The pieces were acquired directly from the women who lost family and friends during the military dictatorship. 7 pieces are from the women’s workshop, MACUL. MACUL was the first urban women’s workshop formed by the wife of President Frei, María Ruiz-Tagle.
Extent
468 items (2 boxes, 2 folders) : 445 posters, 25 arpilleras
Abstract
The Chilean Ephemera Collection is comprised of posters, political pamphlets and leaflets, art prints, arpilleras, and photographs related to protests against the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet and the educational policies of 21st century administrations.
Arrangement of the Collection
The materials in the collection have been arranged into 3 series by provenance and/or subject:
Series 1: Chilean Student Protest Materials
Series 2: Guillermo Nuñez Posters
Series 3: Chilean Arpilleras
Series 1: Chilean Student Protest Materials
Series 2: Guillermo Nuñez Posters
Series 3: Chilean Arpilleras
Physical Location
B2. Shelved by pictorial number. Extra-oversize folders filed in extra-oversize drawers by Pictorial Number. Box 2 is shelved in the Big Box location. Arpilleras not in Box 2 are currently our on exhibit loan.
Photographs Available Online
Portions of the Chilean Ephemera Collection are available online via New Mexico Digital Collections.
- Arpilleras
- Chile -- Pictorial works
- Chile--Chilean Students -- Caricatures and cartoons
- Chile--Chilean Students -- Photographs
- Chile--Chilean Students -- Pictorial works
- Chile--Chilean Students -- Posters
- Chile--Education, regional disparities -- Caricatures and cartoons
- Chile--Education, regional disparities -- Photographs
- Chile--Education, regional disparities -- Pictorial works
- Chile--Education, regional disparities -- Posters
- Chile--Politics and government--20th century -- Posters
- Chile--Politics and government--21st century -- Caricatures and cartoons
- Chile--Politics and government--21st century -- Photographs
- Chile--Politics and government--21st century -- Pictorial works
- Fliers (Ephemera)
- Photographic prints
- Political literature
- Posters
- Protest literature
- Screen prints
- Stencil work
- Title
- Finding Aid of the Chilean Ephemera Collection, 1970-2011
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Michael Hoopes
- Date
- © 2013, 2014
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is in English
Revision Statements
- Monday, 20210524: Attribute normal is missing or blank.
Repository Details
Part of the UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections Repository
Contact:
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451
cswrref@unm.edu
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451
cswrref@unm.edu