André the Giant Has a Posse - Parody stickers

André the Giant Has a Posse is a street art campaign based on an original design by Frank Shepard Fairey and Michael Meinhart, created in 1989 while Fairey was a student at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). At the time Fairey declared the campaign to be "an experiment in phenomenology." Over time the artwork has been reused in a number of ways and has become a world-wide pataphysical movement, following in the footsteps of Ivan Stang's Church of the SubGenius and populist WWII icon Kilroy Was Here. At the same time, Fairey's ...

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Fairey and campaign co-creators Blais Blouin, Alfred Hawkins, and Mongo Nikol created paper and vinyl stickers with an image of the wrestler André the Giant and the text "ANDRE THE GIANT HAS A POSSE 7' 4", 520lb", as an in-joke directed at hip hop and skater subculture, and then began clandestinely (and somewhat fanatically) propagating and posting them in Providence, Rhode Island and the Eastern United States. By the early 1990s, tens of thousands of paper and then vinyl stickers were photocopied and hand-silkscreened and put in vis ...

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The essential appeal of the campaign is its parody of propaganda, both political and corporate, that permeates modern American culture. The ubiquity and placement of the André the Giant/OBEY GIANT imagery resembles an advertising campaign, a campaign for a non-existant product. Fairey has succeeded in mocking the idea of branding by creating his own fake brand, subversively using advertising techniqu ...

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André the Giant Has a Posse, André the Giant Has a Posse - History, André the Giant Has a Posse - Meaning, André the Giant Has a Posse - Splinter movements, André the Giant Has a Posse - Parody stickers, André the Giant Has a Posse - Appearances in American pop culture

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