Three pink naked men stand holding their hands together with leaves covering their genitals; advertising The Hot Rubber Company (Zürich), makers of condoms. Colour lithograph by Pfeffer und Salz, ca. 1992.

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[1992?]
Reference:
674895i
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Three pink naked men stand holding their hands together with leaves covering their genitals; advertising The Hot Rubber Company (Zürich), makers of condoms. Colour lithograph by Pfeffer und Salz, ca. 1992. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

The three men with joined hands refer to the oath of the Rütli (Der Rütlischwur), the founding act of the Swiss Confederation (Heuser and Wirtz, loc. cit.)

Publication/Creation

Zürich (Box 9869, CH-8036 Zürich) : The Hot Rubber Company, [1992?]

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, printed in pink and gold on black ; sheet 59.2 x 42 cm

Lettering

Hot Rubber - the condom: To be or not to be. Pfefferundsalz. Bears logo: A with a + sign: AHS; ASS; AAS [for AIDS-Hilfe Schweiz/AIDE Suisse contre le SIDA/Aiuto AIDS Svizzero] Pfeffer und Salz are a graphic design agency based in Düsseldorf

Notes

The Hot Rubber Company are a department of the Deutschen AIDS-Hilfe e.V.

References note

Mechthild Heuser and Irmgard M. Wirtz,Tell im Visier: Plakate aus der Schweizerischen Nationalbibliothek, Zurich 2007, p. 137

Reference

Wellcome Collection 674895i

Copyright note

Pfeffer und salz [graphic designers based in Dusseldorf] The Hot Rubber Company (Zurich) The Hot Rubber Company Deutschlan The Hot Rubber Company (Zurich) Box 9869, CH-8036 Zürich 199- The Hot Rubber ℗ The Hot Rubber Company (Zurich) The Hot Rubber Company Deutschland 18/03/2009 Switzerland UkLW Transcription from the item

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