Posters - No Commercial Value
Among other works reproduced in the book are Tartakover's iconic record-jacket designs - like those for Shalom Hanoch's "Waiting for the Messiah" and Arik Einstein's "Good Old Land of Israel"; the logo for Claude Lantzman's film "Shoah" and political posters from the 1980s, in the wake of the first Lebanon War, and the Sabra and Chatila massacres. There are also reproductions of the artist's poster series "I Am Here" - in which he featured himself in tense security situations, wearing the telltale orange vest of the rescue services emblazoned with the word "artist" on it - and the "Blot" series, where portraits of various people, from Tartakover (known to his friends as "Tarta" ) himself, to Supreme Court Justice Elyakim Rubinstein, are covered in a red blotch in the shape of the West Bank.
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