Power to the Imagination: Artists, Posters and Politics

by Jürgen Döring

From the late nineteenth century to the Vietnam Era to Robert Indiana's Hope sculpture for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, avant-garde artists have long drawn on the dual inspirations of utopian ideals and history in the making to create striking posters that reflect the demand for equality, tolerance, freedom, and human rights.

With more than one hundred vivid, full-color illustrations by great artists of the past century,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3777438812
• ISBN13: 9783777438818
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Hirmer Verlag GmbH
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 2.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.6" x 10.7"