Juan Sin Seso ["Brainless John"] [screen print poster]
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content: AC0615-0000013.tif (AC Scan)

 1997.3100.26 (Museum Cat. No.)
label: Exhibitions Note
content: In the exhibition "Posters from the Division of Community Education (DIVEDCO) of Puerto Rico, 1948-1989," Sept. 17, 2008-Jan. 18, 2009, at the Smithsonian's S. Dillon Ripley Center.
name: label: Artist
content: Contreras, Jose Melendez
label: Sponsor
content: Puerto Rico. Division of Community Education. Department of Education
label: Collection Donor
content: Archivo General de Puerto Rico
place: label: Place
content: Puerto Rico -- 20th century
topic: label: Topic
content: Propaganda
label: Topic
content: Motion pictures
label: Topic
content: Politics -- Puerto Rico
creator: label: Artist
content: Contreras, Jose Melendez
label: Sponsor
content: Puerto Rico. Division of Community Education. Department of Education
setName: label: See more items in
content: Puerto Rico Division of Community Education [DIVEDCO] Poster Collection
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content: Puerto Rico Division of Community Education [DIVEDCO] Poster Collection / Series 1: Events / Movies
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Item (Ink on paper., 63.5 x 52.7 cm.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1972
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film posters
label: Type
content: Posters
label: Type
content: Screen prints
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Reproduced in "Treasures from the Smithsonian Institution 2010" (Smithsonian Calendar), opp. page for May 23-29.

Used April 27, 2010, on the Smithsonian Photographic Initiative web site, "click! photography changes everything" (http://click.si.edu) to accompany contributor Jeremy Wolfe's (a professor at Harvard School of Medicine who investigates visual attention) story, which reflects on how photography changes what and how much we remember.
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content: Film posters -- 20th century
label: Genre/Form
content: Posters -- Puerto Rico
label: Genre/Form
content: Screen prints
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content: This poster advertising the film "Juan Sin Seso" ("Brainless John"), has a minimalist design, relying on text to form the illustration. The image presents a profile of a man's head with a hollow space instead of a brain, crammed with the words "propaganda" and "si" ("yes"). Ironically, the film utilizes elements of propaganda to argue against it. This film was shown in 1960 in Melbourne, Venice, and Edinburgh Film Festivals. (Based on exhibition text by Marvette Perez.)