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[Posters] [Counter-Culture] Berkeley Political Poster Workshop Portfolio (University of California, Berkeley: Political Poster Workshop, ca. 1970). Group of 43 screenprints (some duplicate images, printed in different colors, on different paper stock, and in different formats). Scattered soiling and wear. Measuring 14 1/2 x 11 in. (368 x 279 mm) to 29 1/8 x 23 in. (740 x 584 mm). A rare collection of 43 posters printed at the Political Poster Workshop at the University of California, Berkeley in the summer of 1970. Formed in response to the Nixon administration's invasion of Cambodia as well as the murder of four students at Kent State University by the Ohio National Guard, dozens of student volunteers at UC Berkeley converged on the College of Environmental Design to produce these vivid and urgent images of dissent. Produced en masse under the guidance of artist Malaquias Montoya, a leading figure in the Chicano Art Movement, these students created an