Public reactions to the posters

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I'm

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the director for the center for African

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popular culture at chassi I'm also a

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researcher and a collector I think the

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reactions to these um exhibitions can be

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classified into two folds for the older

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generation it evokes feelings of

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nostalgia right and people say oh you

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know I used to remember you know these

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works when I was younger etc etc and

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then you have the younger folks who have

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no experience with it and then they

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begin to ask questions this is weird or

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this is strangely artistic uh where is

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this coming from as competition grew

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stronger the paintings got more dramatic

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often featuring graphic scenes and

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exaggerated muscular

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physiques sometimes you have things

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depicted on the posters that will arouse

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your interest because you think that you

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are going to see those depictions in

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those