Paper Politics - socially engaged printmaking today
The project originated in the George W. Bush era in 2004 when fears were high for the political left following the September 11th attacks and the failure to stop a US invasion of Iraq. The posters below are the voices in anger against these times. The prints below are the ones which were most powerful and most eye-catching on the page, as well as being ones which were most appropriate to the project. The featured artists which I have been looking at within the book are;
- Goatskull - smoke em out! - 2003 - screen print
- Csilla Kosa - Say Not - 2000 - screen print
- Nathan Meltz - This machine kills fascists - 2007 - screen print
- Gabriel Cohen - send one to get one (1,2,3) - 2007 - screen print
- Sam Sebren - Breeding Zombie Consumer - 2008 - stencil and paper cut
- Spazmor - Skull phone - 2004 - screen print
- Arthur Desmarteux - Our Father In Heaven - 2006 - screen print
- Claude Moller - If Vietnam Were Now - 2004 - screen print
"If my prints are good, they should help union or neighbourhood struggles in a strategic way, by publicising a campaign, exposing corrupt politicians, winning new members, getting more media, or winning local reforms. If my prints are really good, they should clearly break down a complex issue and make you go through an ideological shift." - Claude Moller
- Don Feckner and Don Leicht - Invade - 2006 - stencil
- Rebecca Johnson - Mcdubya - 2004 - Screen print
- Lydia Crumbley - untitled - 2004 - lithograph
- Joshua Pablo Rosenstock - It was a very good year - 2003 - stencil
- Alfonso Jaramillo and Marcelo Reyes - Spare Change For Bombs - 2006 - screenprint
- Maro Lepson - One Way 2003 - screen print
- Chris Cardinal / Closed circuit - War Hero - 2005 Screen print
- Periphel Media Projects - Abolish Alienation / Sgt. Guy Debord - 2003 - screen print
- Gabba Levtchenko - Bad Neighborhood - 2003 - screen print
- MK - Bonzai - 2003 - screen print
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