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Protest Posters
In the United States (trade unionism and Civil Right Activism)
The 5 year strike of Wine Farm workers.
In the late 1960's farm workers in the Californian wine industry were refused minimum wage. The workers who were largely Philipino and Mexican went on strinke for five years and were supported by a consumer boycott.
Many of the most striking designs of the left have a low-tech character. Carlos Cortez’s woodcuts stand out. Cortez exchanged his gouges for pen and ink, he maintained his ‘primitive’ aesthetic.
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| Carlos Cortez's |
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| Carlos Cortez's |
Style and ideology connected his work to a long tradition of popular print which claimed Mexican political cartoonist José Guadalupe Posada and Berlin artist Käthe Kollwitz as pioneers.
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| José Guadalupe Posada |
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| José Guadalupe Posada |
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| José Guadalupe Posada |
Ricardo Levin-Morales’ 1992 poster Globalization: the Next Generation fills a plan view of a jumbo jet with a ‘cargo’ of slaves. It reworks Thomas Clarkson’s famous 1789 image of 482 closely-packed human beings on a slave ship bound for the New World. Almost 200 million people in the world are international migrants today who have moved in search of work and that figure will surely grow. Levin-Morales’ image points to the daunting challenge of protecting the rights of workers in what is often – and sometimes mistakenly – called a ‘post-industrial’ age.
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| Ricardo Levin Morales, Globalization: The Next Generation |
In Loving Memory of Work - Craig Oldham
A book documenting the Miners Strike between 1985 and 1986
South African Apartheid Poster Posters
The hand made, low-tech or 'primitive' nature of all the posters featured above are examples of the do it yourself attitude adopted by the Punk movement.
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