Printmaking and Social Movements
社会運動と版画
Dictionary entry
- Chicano Graphics 1965– / Style
Argues for Mexican-American cultural self-determination and social justice through screenprints, posters, satire and portraits.
- ROSTA Windows 1919–1921 / Style
Stencil-replicated poster serials the ROSTA news agency pasted in empty shop windows during the civil war. Mayakovsky and others turned news into comic-strip panels of simple shapes and rhymed captions — the prototype of rapid-response graphics.
- Atelier Populaire May–June 1968 / Style
The print workshop of the occupied École des Beaux-Arts in May '68: one-color silkscreens, simple figures and declarative slogans mass-produced nightly — anonymity, no sales, street posting — the prototype of protest graphics.
- ACT UP Graphics 1987–1990s / Style
The visual strategy of the AIDS-crisis direct-action movement: the pink triangle of SILENCE=DEATH, advertising's grammar seized for clarity, and free reproduction — activist graphics forged to advertising's strength.
- Situationist Graphics 1957–1972 / Layout
The practice of détournement: hijacking existing images from advertising, comics and film, and swapping only the speech-balloon text to invert their meaning. Its knack for betraying dominant imagery from the inside, at no production cost, runs in a straight line to later culture jamming and internet memes.
- Chicano Art 1965– / Style
An expression born out of the Mexican American civil rights movement. Murals, silkscreened posters, lowriders and lettering form one continuous vocabulary, and Aztec imagery, Catholic devotional figures and mixed English-Spanish lettering share a single surface. A case in which a movement produced a style.