Curator's note:
This graphic in this poster is a remix of an original work by Kamal Boullata which may be viewed here
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Dan Walsh
Feb 1 (2 days ago)
to Kamal
http://www.palestineposterproject.org/poster/rise-up-in-defense-of-the-heroic-palestinian-people
Kamal Boullata
Feb 2 (1 day ago)
to me
Dear Dan,
I was sorry to learn about the attack on your home. I could not write you earlier because I was in bed over the last week with a terrible flu. This is my first opportunity to write.
I did not design the poster “Rise Up in Defense of the Heroic Palestinian People.” But elements of it have been taken from a line drawing theme I have created in 1970 depicting a fida ‘i’s face covered with a checkered headdress with the raised fist holding a sickle. Here, the face, arm and fist were badly copied and the raised arm was made to hold a gun. Everything else you see in the poster is not my work.
I take this opportunity to add to you that, a number of posters that appear in your project under my name contain only partly hijacked elements of my work, be it in design or line drawing. If you like, I can point these details out for you when I find the time.
Did you know about the Palestine Lives album produced in 1970 by Paredon Records for which I provided the original tapes, designed its jacket translated the songs and illustrated its booklet with line drawings ?
http://www.discogs.com/Various-Palestine-Lives-Songs-From-The-Struggle-Of-The-People-Of-Palestine/release/1520479
Apparently, it is now made available to the public with other protest and revolutionary songs through the Smithsonian:
http://www.folkways.si.edu/paredon-records-activist-songs-speeches-1970-1985/american-history-spoken-word/music/article/smithsonian
Kamal