{"product_id":"graphic-liberation-image-making-and-political-movements-9781942173878","title":"Graphic Liberation: Image Making and Political Movements","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the fight against the AIDS crisis to the struggle for Black liberation and international solidarity, Graphic Liberation! digs deep into the history, present, and future of revolutionary political image making.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is the role of image and aesthetic in revolution? Through a series of interviews with some of the most accomplished designers, Josh MacPhee charts the importance of revolutionary aesthetics from the struggle for abolition by Black Panthers, the agitation during the AIDS crisis from ACT-UP, the fight against apartheid in South Africa and Palestine, as well as everyday organizing against nuclear power, for housing, and international solidarity in Germany, Japan, China, and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn ten interviews, political designer and street artist Josh MacPhee talks to decorated graphic designers such as Avram Finkelstein, Emory Douglas, and more, focussing on each of their contributions to the field of political graphics, their relationships to social movements and political organizing, the history of political image making, and issues arising from reproduction and copyright.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJosh MacPhee \u003c\/b\u003ehas created a composite work life that merges elements of designer, artist, author, historian, and archivist. He is a founding member of the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative (Justseeds.org), the author of An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor of Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture. He cofounded and helps run Interference Archive, a public collection of cultural materials produced by social movements (InterferenceArchive.org). He regularly works with community and social justice organizations building agit-prop and consulting on cultural strategy. \u003cb\u003eAvram Finkelstein\u003c\/b\u003e is a US designer from Silence=Death Project, Gran Fury, ACT UP.\u003cb\u003eAlison Alde\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003er\u003c\/b\u003e is an Australia-based printmaker, member of Redback Grafix, and founder of Megalo print studio.\u003cb\u003eEmory Douglas\u003c\/b\u003e is former revolutionary artist and designer for the Black Panther Party.\u003cb\u003eMelanie Cervantes\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eJesus Barraza\u003c\/b\u003e are a Chicanx printmakers in the Bay Area, members of Dignidad Rebelde and Justseeds Artists Cooperative.\u003cb\u003eDaniel Drennan ElAwar\u003c\/b\u003e is founder of Jamaa Al-Yad graphics collective in Beirut, Lebanon.\u003cb\u003eTomie Arai\u003c\/b\u003e is an early member of Basement Workshop, the first political cultural space in NYC Chinatown in the 1970s, and a member of Godzilla, Asian-American arts collective.\u003cb\u003eSandy Kaltenborn\u003c\/b\u003e is cofounder of Kotti \u0026amp; Co. housing initiative in Berlin and image-shift studio.\u003cb\u003eJudy Seidman\u003c\/b\u003e is a longtime South African arts organizer, activist, and member of Medu Arts Ensemble.\u003cb\u003eA3BC Collective\u003c\/b\u003e is an antinuclear-antimilitarist block making collective in Tokyo, Japan.\u003cb\u003eTings Chak\u003c\/b\u003e is based in China and is the art director of the new Tricontinental.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50719752388882,"sku":"9781942173878","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_faddaf1c-afeb-429b-8c66-26cd0890e642.jpg?v=1734669845","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/graphic-liberation-image-making-and-political-movements-9781942173878","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}