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Political Protest

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Atelier Populaire. Posters from the Revolution, Paris, May 1968, Texts and Posters. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1969. There is also a collection of ninety-six posters in color published by Dobson in London in 1968. Eighty-seven posters were published in miniature by Usines Université Union, Paris, 1968.



Blum, Paul von. The Art of Social Conscience. New York: Universe Books, 1976. Nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

——. The Critical Vision. A History of Social and Political Art in the U.S. Boston: South End Press, 1982.

Bork, Angela, et al. Die politische Lithographie im Kampf um die Pariser Kommune. Cologne, Germany: Gaehme, Henke, 1976.

Commune de Paris 1871–1971. Exposition du Centenaire. Saint Denis, Musé d'Art et d'Histoire, 1971.

Craven, David. Art and Revolution in Latin America, 1910-1990. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002. Covers Mexico (1910–1940), Cuba (1959–1989), and Nicaragua (1979–1990).

Cushing, Lincoln. Revolución! Cuban Poster Art. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2003. Many OSPAAAL posters.

Davidson, Steef. Images de la révolte 1965–1975. Paris: Musée de l'Affiche et de la Publicité, H. Veyrier, 1982. See introduction.

Diederich, Reiner, and Richard Grübling. Stark für die Freiheit: Die Bundesrepublik in Plakat. Hamburg, Germany: Rasch und Röhring, 1989. With 164 illustrations and commentary on all.

——. "Unter die Schere mit den Geiern." Politische Fotomontage in der Bundesrepublik und Westberlin. Berlin: Elefanten Press Galerie, 1977. Well-documented.

Evans, David, and Sylvia Gohl. Photomontage: A Political Weapon. London: G. Frazer, 1968.

Gaddi, Giuseppe. Fascismo Mai. 100 Manifesti contro la Minaccia fascista in Europa. Milan: La Pietra, 1972.

Grupo Mira . La Grafica del 68, Homenaje al Movimiento Estudiantil. n.p.: Mexico D.F., 1981. Anthology of woodcuts about the repression of 1968.

Heller, Steven. Man Bites Man: Two Decades of Drawings and Cartoons. New York: A and W Publishers, 1981.

Jacobs, Karrie, and Steven Heller. Angry Graphics: Protest Posters of the Reagan/Bush Era. Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith Books, 1992.

Kunzle, David. Posters of Protest: The Posters of Political Satire in the U.S., 1966–1970. Santa Barbara: University of California, 1971. Exhibition catalog. A shorter version published by New School for Social Research, New York (Triple R. Press), 1971.

——. Murals of Revolutionary Nicaragua, 1979–1992. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. Includes reproductions of many posters.

Langemeyer, Gerhard, et al. eds. Bild als Waffe: Mittel und Motive der Karikatur in fünf Jahrhunderten. Munich: Prestel-Verlag. 1984. Deals with various media from five centuries, very copiously illustrated.

Lippard, Lucy R. A Different War: Vietnam in Art. Seattle: Real Comet Press, 1990. Works of "high art."

McQuiston, Liz. Graphic Agitation:. Social and Political Graphics since the Sixties. London: Phaidon, 1993. Includes posters from countries around the world seldom regarded in poster history.

Micheli, Mario de. Manifesti Revoluzionari: Europa 1900–1940. Milan: Fratelli Fabbri, 1973. Many Soviet and Soviet-bloc posters.

Philippe, Robert. Political Graphics, Art as a Weapon. Oxford: Phaidon; New York: Abbeville Press, 1982. Comprehensive.

Poster Book Collective of the South African History Archive. Images of Defiance: South African Resistance Posters of the 1980s. Johannesburg: Raven Press, 1991.

Ray, Violet. Advertising the Contradictions. Berkeley, Calif.: V. Ray, 1984. Collaging the real and fantasy worlds.

Rickards, Maurice. Posters of Protest and Revolution. Bath, U.K.: Adams and Dart, 1970. Twenty-one countries represented in a very compact volume.

Shikes, Ralph E. The Indignant Eye: The Artist as Social Critic in Prints and Drawings from the Fifteenth Century to Picasso. Boston: Beacon Press, 1969. Unsurpassed.

Stermer, Dugald, and Susan Sontag. The Art of Revolution: 96 Posters from Cuba. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970. Excellent texts with fine facsimiles.

Thomas, C. David, ed. As Seen by Both Sides: American and Vietnamese Artists Look at the War. Boston: Indochina Arts Project, William Joiner Foundation, 1991.

Track 16 Gallery/Center for the Study of Political Graphics. Decade of Protest, Political Posters from the United States, Vietnam, Cuba 1965–1975. Santa Monica, Calif.: Smart Art Press, 1996.

Wright, Micah. You Back the Attack! We'll Bomb Who We Want! Remixed War Propaganda Posters. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2003. Preface urges readers to break book apart and make enlarged copies into posters.

Yanker, Gary. Prop Art: Over 1000 Contemporary Political Posters New York: Darien House, 1972. Mix of radical, historic, and straight election posters.

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