1989 election posters: facts and legends
This article discusses political posters from 1989 parliamentary elections in Poland, used by Solidarity and Polish United Workers’ Party. Although election campaings are widely and thoroughly analysed, posters are rarely a subject to research, with a few exceptions of Polish historians and political scientists. There are two purposes of present analysis: the first is one is to introduce methods such as semiotic, visual culture and narrative semiotic to reveal the structures of meaning and ideologies conveyed by the posters. The second is to reconstruct and interpret various legends that arose around posters from 1989 elections and the symbolic function of the West in Solidarity’s victory.
