Protest!: A History of Social and Political Protest Graphics

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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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Publisher

Frances Lincoln, 1st edition (8 Oct. 2019)

Language

English

Hardcover

288 pages

ISBN-10

0711241295

ISBN-13

978-0711241299

Dimensions

23.5 x 2.7 x 29 cm

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    by Jenny

    Fast delivery, great quality and will definitely buy again.

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    by Richard Hill

    This is a very LARGE book crammed with artwork, description and comments. I’m finding it very useful in supporting my studies: Open University Arts and languages access module. Theme: Popular Protest.

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    by jen

    Interesting read

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