Political Graphics: Art as a Weapon

by Robert Philippe

"The changing modes of political graphics over the last five hundred years are here examined over the last five hundred years are examined, together with the techniques by which they reached their various publics, through an analysis of more than four hundred examples arranged according to both chronology and theme."

Table of Contents -- Politics and Pictures -- The Show Begins with Only a Handful of Stars -- Power and Public Opinion : The Beginning of Confrontation -- The High Season of Idealism : The Ebb and Flow of Revolution -- The Emotions of Public Opinion -- The Voice of the Interlocutor -- A Vocabulary for the Mass Society -- The March of Protest -- Utopia, Apocalypse, and Hope -- "Those Damn Pictures" Revisited / Steven Heller -- 50 Important Names in Political Graphics -- Index of Names -- Picture Sources

334 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1982