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\"A survey of the street art and uplifting philosophy of street artist Morley\"-- Provided by publisher.
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WPA Posters in an Aesthetic, Social, and Political Context
This book examines posters produced by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), a federal relief program designed to create jobs in the United States during the Great Depression.
Cory Pillen focuses on several issues addressed repeatedly in the roughly 2,200 extant WPA posters created between 1935 and 1943: recreation and leisure, conservation, health and disease, and public housing. As the book shows, the posters promote specific forms of knowledge and literacy as solutions to contemporary social concerns. The varied issues these works engage and the ideals they endorse, however, would have resonated in complex ways with the posters' diverse viewing public, working both for and against the rhetoric of consensus employed by New Deal agencies in defining and managing the relationship between self and society in modern America.
This book will be of interest to scholars in design history, art history, and American studies.
Cover image: Don (Chester) C. Powell. Washington D.C. WPA, Department of the Interior, National Park Service, c. 1938. Silkscreen Print. Digital Image courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, WPA Poster Collection, LC-DIG-ppmsca-13397.
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Black Panther : the revolutionary art of Emory Douglas
Presents bold graphics, photographs, and collages created by Emory Douglas, the Black Panther Party's newspaper art director and later the party's Minister of Culture. \"Discusses Douglas's seminal role in the crafting of the party's visual identity and cultural programs and his lasting influence on generations of artists and designers.\"--Dust jacket.
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Over the top: supporting The Great War
Moffatt points out that a special highlight of this exhibition is a curated collection of photographs of Rockwell from his time in the Navy during World War I. \"The posters . . . demonstrate the power of visual images in our world,\" indicates Stephanie Haboush Plunkett, chief curator at Rockwell. The government promised to repay the bonds with tax-free interest Accompanying the Liberty Loan drives was a massive public relations campaign that utilized posters, public speakers, newspapers, brochures, and motion pictures to urge people to buy bonds.
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