Buren's wildly flyposted conceptual art strip posters in public spaces appeared just days before the protest posters of the May riots,some even appearing on on the same walls, including those here at the art academy.

Photo: Bernard Boyer, Paris. © Daniel Buren / Adagp, Paris. Detail.

In addition to the posters that would characterize later street art and protest graphics, spray-painted slogans between politics and poetry received great attention here for the first time. The posters from 1968 used puns and pointed contrasts.

Photo: Evènements de May-Juin 1968. Occupation de l''école des Beaux-Arts. Paris, May 1968. © Georges Azenstarck / Roger-Viollet.