Blood Red On Black Peace Sign Pin 87mm Button Circa 1960’s 1970’s Love Symbol

Description: Circa 1960’s / 1970’s blood 🩸on BLACK PEACE SIGN • LOVE SYMBOL 3-3/8” Button The symbol designed for the British nuclear disarmament movement in 1958 is now widely known as the "peace sign". A number of peace symbols have been used many ways in various cultures and contexts. The dove and olive branch was used symbolically by early Christians and then eventually became a secular peace symbol, popularized by a Dove lithograph by Pablo Picasso after World War II. In the 1950s the "peace sign", as it is known today (also known as "peace and love"), was designed by Gerald Holtom as the logo for the British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), a group at the forefront of the peace movement in the UK, and adopted by anti-war and counterculture activists in the US and elsewhere. The symbol is a super-imposition of the semaphore signals for the letters "N" and "D", taken to stand for "nuclear disarmament", while simultaneously acting as a reference to Goya's The Third of May 1808 (1814) (aka "Peasant Before the Firing Squad"). The V hand signal and the peace flag also became international peace symbols.

Price: 4.28 USD

Location: Homewood, Illinois

End Time: 2024-10-05T13:27:43.000Z

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