Populution [Yippies] Lithograph, 1970s

Poster designed and printed by the Yippies, in 1971

The Youth International Party (YIPpies) were a radical group that used often humourous and audacious media stunts to propagandize their revolutionary, anti-war and broadly countercultural ideology

This poster was printed and designed by the Yippies in 1971

The meaning of this piece is a little more opaque than almost all of their other work (which tends to hit you over the head with its agenda). I have a few theories:

One is that it refers to the Yippies 1968 candidate for president, Pigasus, a real life pig that the Yippies campaigned for. 

Another is that it likens the American population as an over-consuming polluting force.

Another is that it's anti-cop, more pigs equals more population pollution

There are remnants of sticky pieces on the corner 

29” x 21”

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