Dennis Fox’s Weblog

I just received an invitation to write about The Design of Dissent, an exhibition at New York’s School of Visual Arts scheduled to run June 3 - July 2, 2005. I can’t make it to the June 3 opening, but may try to get there later on. The website shows a few of the displayed graphics, including the thought-provoking 2002 “Israel Palestine Blood Bath.” Here’s some of the website description:

School of Visual Arts presents “The Design of Dissent,” an exhibition of over 100 political posters and other graphic art from around the world, curated by SVA faculty, board member and legendary designer Milton Glaser and graphic designer and SVA faculty, Mirko Ilić. The exhibition celebrates the launch of the publication The Design of Dissent: Socially and Politically Driven Graphics, with forward by playwright Tony Kushner, published by Rockport Press.

The exhibition and book examine the varied, vital graphic response to the constraints of government and the “powers that be” from around the globe. The works contain an element of discord, an appeal to justice and an attempt to liberate some truth that lies beneath the surface of public discourse. Tony Kushner states in the book’s introduction, “The political is in the arena of the miraculous, where the collective and the communal, so routinely repressed, so viciously suppressed, stages its returns, where eternal truths and immortal edifices can dissolve in an eye blink, in historical time where change rather than stasis is the only constant.”

“The Design of Dissent” showcases posters, books, buttons, magazines and other ephemera from the 1960s to the present, from countries such as Israel, Palestine, the former Yugoslavia, Russia, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Iran, Turkey, Bosnia, Serbia, Spain, Poland, Malaysia, Germany, South Africa, Argentina, Mexico and the United States.

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