Günther Kieser designed more than a dozen posters for the various tours of Lippmann + Rau’s America Folk Blues Festival, each offering a distinctive interpretation of specific American themes. Here, Kieser splits an acoustic guitar along its vertical axis, revealing a crumpled American flag. The dark brown and white sides of the instrument most likely refer to the ongoing racial tensions in the United States; the release from prison that year of Bobby Seale, the leader of Black Panther Party, had made the international headlines. This schism is nonetheless unified by spikes at the top of the guitar suggesting the Statue of Liberty’s crown. Europeans like Kieser were often shocked that such racial violence could occur in a country that claimed liberty and democracy as core values. Unlike Kieser’s other posters that either announce the West German leg of a larger European tour or do not mention a venue at all, this one includes a tip-on (an additional piece of paper attached to the poster) in French for the Geneva performance. The text also states that the photograph of Kieser’s sculpture was taken by Hans Hartmann, a fellow designer and frequent collaborator, who often captured the images used in the final versions of Kieser’s designs. Hartmann’s studio was in the same building as Kieser’s, and Kieser would often set up his sculptures and arrange the lighting in advance so that Hartmann only had to press the shutter to produce the desired image.