An authoritative, richly illustrated history of six centuries of
global protest art Throughout history, artists and citizens have
turned to protest art as a means of demonstrating social and
political discontent. From the earliest broadsheets in the 1500s to
engravings, photolithographs, prints, posters, murals, graffiti,
and political cartoons, these endlessly inventive graphic forms
have symbolized and spurred on power struggles, rebellions,
spirited causes, and calls to arms. Spanning continents and
centuries, Protest! presents a major new chronological look at
protest graphics. Beginning in the Reformation, when printed visual
matter was first produced in multiples, Liz McQuiston follows the
iconic images that have accompanied movements and events around the
world. She examines fine art and propaganda, including William
Hogarth's Gin Lane, Thomas Nast's political caricatures, French and
British comics, postcards from the women's suffrage movement,
clothing of the 1960s counterculture, the anti-apartheid
illustrated book How to Commit Suicide in South Africa, the
"Silence=Death" emblem from the AIDS crisis, murals created during
the Arab Spring, electronic graphics from Hong Kong's Umbrella
Revolution, and the front cover of the magazine Charlie Hebdo.
Providing a visual exploration both joyful and brutal, McQuiston
discusses how graphics have been used to protest wars, call for the
end to racial discrimination, demand freedom from tyranny, and
satirize authority figures and regimes. From the French, Mexican,
and Sandinista revolutions to the American civil rights movement,
nuclear disarmament, and the Women's March of 2017, Protest!
documents the integral role of the visual arts in passionate
efforts for change.
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