A horizontal condom decorated with coloured shapes including red hearts to symbolise love; with the message "without [condoms] the desire goes away". Colour lithograph after Niki de Saint Phalle.

Date:
[between 1990 and 1999]
Reference:
675054i
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A horizontal condom decorated with coloured shapes including red hearts to symbolise love; with the message "without [condoms] the desire goes away". Colour lithograph after Niki de Saint Phalle. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Publication/Creation

Zurigo (Gerechtigkeitsgasse 14, 8002 Zurigo [Zurich]) : Aiuto AIDS Svizzero ; Berna (Bollwerk 27, 3001 Berna [Berne]) : Ufficio federale della sanità, [between 1990 and 1999]

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 54.9 x 39 cm

Lettering

Senza [illustration of condom] la voglia va via. Stop AIDS. Campagna di prevenzione dell'Aiuto AIDS Svizerro, in collaborzione con l'Ufficio federale della sanità. cR Basel. Avvertimento dell'Ufficio federale della sanità pubblica: Rapporti sessuali non protetti possono mettere in pericolo la vostra salute. Stop AIDS ... Questo cartellone è stato fatto per il commercio sessuale e deve essere collocato soltanto qui. Nessuna vendita ai giovani. L'illustrazione di Niki de Saint Phalle è tratta dal libro 'AIDS you can't catch it holding hands'. Lettering on verso includes a warning issued by the Federal Office of Public Health that unprotected sex can endanger health and that 'this poster was done for the sex trade and should only be placed here' A condom replaces the 'o' of 'Stop AIDS'

Copyright note

Nikki de Saint Phalle [illustrator from the book 'AIDS: You Can t Catch It Holding Hands', by Nikki de Saint Phalle, Lapis Press, 1987, San Francisco) Ufficio federale della sanità, in collaborazione con Aiuto AIDS Svizzero 199- Ufficio federale della sanità, in collaborazione con Aiuto AIDS Svizzero Switzerland 24/03/2009 UkLW Transcription from the item

Notes

One of a series of posters from the Stop AIDS campaign by the Federal Office of Public Health in collaboration with the Aiuto AIDS Svizzero

Reference

Wellcome Collection 675054i

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