general anthologies
Baigell, Matthew and Julia Williams, editors.
Artists
Against War and Fascism: Papers of the First American Artists'
Congress, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1986. Originally
published under the title Papers of the American Artists's Congress, 1936.
Becker, Heather and Peter J. Schulz (photographer).
Art for the People: The Rediscovery and Preservation of Progressive and WPA-Era Murals in the Chicago Public Schools, 1904-1943. Chicago: Chronicle Books, 2002.
Brown, Joshua.
Beyond the Lines: pictorial reporting, everyday life, and the crisis of Gilded Age America, University of California Press, 2002.
Bruckner, D.J.R., Seymour Chwast, and Steven Heller.
Art
Against War: 400 Years of Protest Art, New York: Abbeville Press,
1984.
Buhle, Paul and Nicole Schulman, editors,
WOBBLIES!, A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World, London | New York: Verso, 2005. Brilliant!
Dunitz, Robin.
Street Gallery: Guide to 1000 Los Angeles Murals. Los Angeles: RJD Enterprises, Box 64668, Los Angeles CA 90064, 1993. See also the
Mural Conservancy of Los Angeles and Mary Lackritz Gray,
A Guide to Chicago's Murals (below).
Eisenman, Stephen F.
The Abu Ghraib Effect, London: Reaktion Books Ltd, 2007. A cogent art historical analysis: "The Abu Ghraib photographs ... are not works of art, but the materials and tools of art history are essential to understand them and counter their effect."
Reaktion Books
Fitzgerald, Richard.
Art and Politics, Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 1973. Analysis of the work of 5 artists: Maurice Becker, K.R. Chamberlain, Robert Minor, John Sloan and
Art Young
Goldstein, Robert Justin.
Censorship of Political Caricature
in Nineteenth-Century France, Kent Ohio: Kent State University
Press, 1989.
Gray, Mary Lackritz.
A Guide to Chicago's Murals, with a forward by Franz Schulze. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Includes maps to mural locations, artist biographic information, and historical background on each mural. See also (above), Robin Dunitz,
Street Gallery: Guide to 1000 Los Angeles Murals.
Heintz, James and Nancy Folbre, and the Center for Popular Economics.
The Ultimate Field Guide to the U.S. Economy: a compact and irreverent guide to economic life in America. New York: The New Press, 2000. This is a handsomely illustrated*** book, and viewers can get updates and corrections on-line at www.fguide.org, as well as subscribe to and contribute to a list of Econ-Atrocities.
***illustrations by Nicole Hollander, Gary Huck, Mike Konopacki, Richard Mock, Tom Tomorrow, Dan Wasserman and Matt Wuerker, among others.
Heller, Steven.
Man Bites Man, New York: A&W Publishers, 1981.
Heller, Steven (editor).
War Heads: Cartoonists Draw the Line, New York: Viking/Penguin, 1983.
Heller, Steven (editor).
Innovators of American Illustration, New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1986.
Heller, Steven and Gail Anderson.
Savage Mirror: The Art of Contemporary Caricature, New York: Watson-Guptil, 1992.
Hess, Stephen and Milton Kaplan.
The Ungentlemanly
Art: A History of American Political Cartoons, New York: Macmillan
Publishing, 1968 (revised edition: 1975).
Hogarth, Paul.
The artist as reporter. London: Studio Vista; New York: Reinhold Publishing Corporation, 1967. From medieval times through 1966, a well illustrated, wide ranging and fascinating view of art 'based on the artist's response to his [or her] times'.
Horn, Maurice [editor].
The World Encyclopedia of Cartoons. New York/London: Chelsea House Publishers, 1980. Extensive biographical information on numerous artists, with essays on the worldwide historical development of caricature, including journals that publish(ed) graphic political and social commentary, like
L'Assiette au Beurre.
Jacobs, Karrie and Steven Heller.
Angry Graphics: Protest Posters of the Reagan/Bush Era, Layton, UT: Gibbs-Smith, nd (o.p. 1994).
Katz, Harry L. (editor), with essays by Bernard F. Reilly, Jr., and Garnet McCoy.
Life of the People: Realist Prints and Drawings from the Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Collection, 1912-1948, Washington: Library of Congress, 1999. exhibition catalog
King, David and Cathy Porter.
Images of Revolution:
Graphic Art from 1905 Russia, New York: Pantheon Books, 1983.
McQuiston, Liz.
Suffragettes to She-Devils: Women's Liberation and Beyond, London: Phaidon Press Ltd. 1997. "...a sourcebook of some of the world's most arresting graphic images....reflecting the ways in which women of all ages and cultures...have fostered social change...through their powerful graphic expression."
MacPhee, Josh.
Stencil Pirates: A Global Study of the Street Stencil, Brooklyn: Soft Skull Press, 2004.
McQuiston, Liz.
Graphic Agitation: Social and Political Graphics Since the Sixties, London/New York: Phaidon Press, 1993.
Nevins, Allan and Frank Weitenkampf.
A Century of Political Cartoons: Caricature in the United States from
1800 to 1900, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1944.
Lerman, Louis, text with forward by Franz Boas.
Winter Soldiers: The Story of a Conspiracy Against the Schools,
with full page illustrations by Raphael Soyer, Philip Evergood,
Hugo Gellert, William Gropper, Rockwell Kent, William Steig,
Art Young and more. See also
The Struggle for Free Speech at CCNY, 1931-42
Okun, Rob A., editor.
The
Rosenbergs: Collected Visions of Artists and Writers, a catalog
accompanying the traveling exhibtion,
Unknown
Secrets: Art and the Rosenberg Era. New
York: Universe Books, 1991.
Philippe, Robert.
Political Graphics: Art as a Weapon,
New York: Abbeville Press, 1980.
Platt, Susan Noyes.
Art & Politics in the 1930's: Modernism -- Marxism -- Americanism. A History of Cultural Activism During the Depression Years, New York: Midmarch Arts Press, 1999.
Prager, Arthur.
The Mahogany Tree: An Informal History
of PUNCH, New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1979.
Reilly, Bernard.
Drawings of Nature and Circumstance:
Caricature since 1870, an exhibit at the Library of Congress,
Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1979.
Resnick, Elizabeth, Chaz Maviyane-Davies, and Frank Baseman curated and organized the exhibition,
The Graphic Imperative: International Posters for Peace, Justice and the Environment, 1965-2005.; catalog essays by Steven Heller and Carol A. Wells. Boston: Massachusetts College of Art and Design, 2005.
additional information. Exquisite catalog of a beautifully curated exhibition.
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.
_____________ and Steven Heller.
The Art of Satire:
Painters as caricaturists and cartoonists from Delacroix to Picasso,
New York: Pratt Graphics Center and Horizon Press, 1984.
Sorin, Gretchen Sullivan and Helen M. Shannon; created and developed by Gary Miles Chassman.
In the Spirit of Martin: the living legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Atlanta: Tinwood Books, 2001. Catalog of the Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition, "...is the first book to demonstrate through the visual arts, the enduring influence and importance of the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr....large format, 224 page, richly illustrated book with more than 180 artworks, all reproduced in full color, including more than forty works that were not available for the exhibition."
Order from Kepler's Books
Stewart, Virginia.
45 Contemporary Mexican Artists, Stanford University Press: 1951. Included is the artist
Leopoldo Mendez
Toll, Nelly.
Without Surrender: Art of the Holocaust, Running Press, Philadelphia: 1978.
Graphic art made in concentration camps during World War II. The fact that the art survived the camps is rare enough; rarer still, the survival of the artists: most did not live to be liberated. See also
Yad Vashem on-line exhibitions of art in response to the Holocaust
West, Richard Samuel. Satire on Stone: The Political Cartoons of Joseph Keppler, University of Illinois Press: 1988. "Keppler was the art director, chief cartoonist and publisher of
Puck, America's first successful humor magazine."
Wright, Micah Ian.
YOU Back the Attack! WE'LL Bomb Who We Want! Remixed War Propaganda, New York:
Seven Stories Press, 2003. With forward by Kurt Vonnegut, introduction by Howard Zinn and commentary by the Center for Constitutional Rights. Invaluable, scary, funny, informative.
Tyler, Linda and Barry Walker, editors.
Hot Off the Press, The University of New Mexico Press: 1994. Included is an interview with
Eric Avery, a physician as well as an artist and a printmaker, currently working with AIDS patients.
Zeitlin, Marilyn,A. editor; essays by Noam Chomsky,
Jon Cortina, Angela Sabrano, Eduardo Sancho and Marilyn A. Zeitlin.
Art
Under Duress: El Salvador 1980-present, a
catalog accompanying the traveling exhibition, Tempe AZ:
Arizona State University Museum, 1994.
For copies of the catalog, contact
ASU Nelson Fine Arts Museum catalog sales
Zurier, Rebecca.
Art for The MASSES:A Radical Magazine
and Its Graphics, 1911-1917, Temple University Press, 1988.
websites, on-line exhibitions /
ESSAYSThe Ship of Fools, on-line at the University of Houston, this timeless medieval satire of Sebastian Brant includes work attributable to Albrecht Dürer. Please note
reproduction rights and permissions.
The Real Cost of Prisons Project seeks to broaden and deepen the organizing capacity of prison/justice activists working to end mass incarceration. The Real Cost of Prisons Project brings together justice activists, artists, justice policy researchers and people directly experiencing the impact of mass incarceration to create popular education materials and other resources that explore the immediate and long-term costs of incarceration on the individual, her/his family, community and the nation.
One of three
comic books available from the Real Cost of Prisons Project is
Prison Town: Paying the Price by Kevin Pyle and Craig Gilmore. Available on-line as a PDF file (3.6 MB -- not recommended for dial up connection). This comic book, illustrates how the financing and siting of prisons and jails effects the people of rural communities in which prisons are built. It also tells the story of the how mass incarceration effects the people of urban communities where the majority of people who are incarcerated come from. Included in the comic book are alternatives to the current system.
The stories and statistical information in each comic book are thoroughly researched and documented. As of October 2006, 125,000 copies of the comic books have been printed and more than 75,000 have been sent to families of people who are incarcerated, people who are incarcerated and to organizers and activists throughout the country. The demand for them is constant and the ways in which they are being used is inspiring.
The Never-Ending Wrong: The Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti -- artists respond, with work by Fred Ellis, Hugo Gellert, William Gropper, Louis Lozowick and others. From the
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center.
An index of on-line exhibitions of
art in response to the Holocaust, from the Yad Vashem Art Museum, Jerusalem.
Another Voice: Political Illustration from The Progressive, 1981-1999. Curated by Patrick JB Flynn.
Essays by Flynn, Steven Heller and Whitney Sherman. A must see!
The Struggle for Free Speech at CCNY, 1931-42, curated by Carol J. Smith. See also a related site,
Winter Soldiers.
Turning the Pages, an award winning site where the viewer can 'turn the pages' of treasures from the British Museum, including Leonardo's notebook, the Lindisfarne Gospels, etc. Macromedia Shockwave version 8.5 required, and available for free download from the site.
Latin American Graphic Arts, curated by Dr. Patrick Frank, an extensive look (in Spanish and English) at rarely seen, primarily 20th Century prints from Latin and South America, including detailed works by Leopoldo Méndez, and a reading primer published by LEAR. Don't miss
"making faces at the enemy".
Caricatures from the French penny press during
The Siege and the Commune of Paris, and other photographic and documentary materials of the period (1871) in the Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University.
Representing America:
The Ken Trevey Collection
of American Realist Prints, organized by
University Art Museum,
University of California at Santa Barbara
Images in Practice, a portal to design and illustration projects from around the world, based in the UK.
Atlantic Press, an independent press based in Cornwall publishing first books by authorial illustrators and artists.
Chagoya, Enrique.
In the Light of Goya (traveling exhibition); essay by exhibition curator, University of California at Berkeley, 1995-1996.
Blair, Sarah.
Message Art, AOI (
Association of Illustrators) November 2002. "An illustrator with a mind to do so can make work which may radically enhance the possibility for debate in this superficially democratic but indisputably poorly-informed western society of ours."
Heller, Steven.
Graphic Intervention, no date; previously unpublished article made available on-line by
Typotheque, a type foundry based in The Netherlands.
________________.
Drawn and Quartered, Mother Jones, November/December 1996.
"A little blood always gets spilled when political cartoonists
skewer public figures. Here, the New York Times senior art
director tells us what makes caricature flourish, picks his 20
favorite examples of recent years, and reveals the stories
behind the art."
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