Revolutionary tides : the art of the political poster, 1914-1989

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Title:

Author:

Schnapp, Jeffrey T. (Jeffrey Thompson), 1954-

ISBN:

9788876242106

9788876242366

Personal Author:

Schnapp, Jeffrey T. (Jeffrey Thompson), 1954-

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication Information:

Milano, Italy : Skira in association with Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, Stanford, Calif. ; New York : Distributed in North America by Rizzoli International Publications, 2005.

Physical Description:

158 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm

General Note:

Accompanies the exhibition of the same title held Sept. 14-Dec. 31, 2004 at the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, and Feb. 24-June 25, 2006 at the Wolfsonian, Florida International University.

Contents:

Revolutionary tides -- The art of the political poster 1914-1989 -- The march -- The mass ornament -- Anatomies of the multitude -- Statistical persons -- Mass production/mass reproduction -- Kill counts -- Totems -- Mass leaders and mass deceivers -- The man of the crowd -- After the crowd -- Critical apparatus.

Artists: Artist unknown -- John C. Atherton -- Ernest Hamlin Baker -- Lester Beall -- Antonio Arias Bernal -- Renato Bertelli -- Mihály Biró -- Jean Carlu -- Will Carson -- Samuel Cherry -- Chlad -- Howard Chandler Christy -- Harald Damsleth -- Andrzej Dudzinski -- Vasilii Elkin -- Gyula Fejes -- José Freire -- Heinz Fuchs -- Iosif Ganf -- Oreste Gasperini -- Francisco Rivero Gil -- Georges Goursat -- Philippe Grach -- Jules Grandjouan -- Hattingberg -- John Heartfield -- Charles Howard -- Ralph Iligan -- IZORAM Collective -- Wolfgang Janisch -- KGK Brigade: Viktor Koretsky, Vera Gitsevich, Boris Knoblok -- Georgii Kibardin -- Viktor Klimashin -- Gustav Klucis -- Nikolai Kochergin -- Henry Koerner -- Valentina Kulagina -- Otto Kummert -- Leonid -- Arthur S. Mole -- Bogdan Nowakowski -- Philippe Henri Noyer -- Amado Oliver -- Pokras -- Sherman Raveson -- Norman Rockwell -- Lewis Rubenstein -- Xanti Schawinsky -- Hans Schweizer -- Georges Scott -- Septimus Edwin Scott -- Bahman Sehhat-Lou -- Sergei Senkin -- Karol Sliwka -- Max Spielmanns -- Bohumil Stepan -- Rafael Tona -- Andy Warhol -- W.E.M. -- Heinrich Vogeler -- Ans van Zeyst.

Abstract:

Public assemblies and multitudes in action are fundamental to our notion of political life. Through 120 posters-many never previously reproduced-the book examines the impact of large gatherings of people in politics and society concentrating on the turbulent years of the first half of the 20th century. The posters will be presented in a nearly year-long US exhibition, drawn from the massive collection of Stanford University's Hoover Institution, and augmented by works from the Wolfsonian Museum, Florida International University, and the Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University. The exhibition catalog, published in conjunction with the Cantor Arts Center, explores the decisive importance of large gatherings of people and its correlative, the mass medium of poster art, and considers the complex nature of the portrayal of political crowds in the modern period. Schnapp's text frames the featured works within a broader history of the images of the crowd in Western art. The essay aims to sharpen the reader's perspective by creating a synthetic understanding of how emerging principles of popular sovereignty in politics shaped new images and myths of a new, collective sense of our humanity.

Subject Term:

Revolutions -- Posters -- Exhibitions.

Political posters -- Exhibitions.

Crowds -- Posters -- Exhibitions.

Added Corporate Author:

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University.

Wolfsonian-Florida International University.

Electronic Access:

Contributor biographical information http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0624/2005042495-b.html
Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0624/2005042495-d.html

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Public assemblies and multitudes in action are fundamental to our notion of political life. Through 120 posters-many never previously reproduced-the book examines the impact of large gatherings of people in politics and society concentrating on the turbulent years of the first half of the 20th century. The posters will be presented in a nearly year-long US exhibition, drawn from the massive collection of Stanford University's Hoover Institution, and augmented by works from the Wolfsonian Museum, Florida International University, and the Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University. The exhibition catalog, published in conjunction with the Cantor Arts Center, explores the decisive importance of large gatherings of people and its correlative, the mass medium of poster art, and considers the complex nature of the portrayal of political crowds in the modern period.Schnapp's text frames the featured works within a broader history of the images of the crowd in Western art. The essay aims to sharpen the reader's perspective by creating a synthetic understanding of how emerging principles of popular sovereignty in politics shaped new images and myths of a new, collective sense of our humanity.