Discover the power and impact of protest art with this
authoritative, richly illustrated history of social and political
protest graphics from around the world. Expertly written and unique
in its scope, this extraordinary book features hundreds of the best
examples of posters, prints, murals, graffiti, political cartoons
and other endlessly inventive graphic forms that have been used in
political protest throughout history and to the present. Spanning
continents and centuries, Protest! documents the vital role of the
visual arts in calling for freedom and change. It examines how
graphics have been used to highlight injustice, protest wars,
satirize authority figures, demand equal rights and fight for an
end to discrimination. An astounding emotional visual exploration
which includes: Hogarth's Gin Lane, Goya's Disasters of War, Thomas
Nast's political caricatures, French and British comics, postcards
from the women's suffrage movement, satirical anti-fascist
magazines , 'Ban the Bomb' demonstrations, clothing of the 1960s
counterculture, Cuban revolutionary poster art, the anti-apartheid
illustrated book How to Commit Suicide in South Africa, the
"Silence=Death" emblem from the AIDS crisis, The Last Whole Earth
Catalog, anti-corporate advertising campaigns, Stonewall posters
and postcards, murals created during the Arab Spring, electronic
graphics from Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution, posters created for
the Women's March, the Trump Baby inflatable blimp, the magazine
Charlie Hebdo, Black Lives Matter posters and flags.
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