Paper Politics

Socially Engaged Printmaking Today

Josh MacPhee

• Publisher: PM Press
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN: 9781604860900
• eBook ISBN: 9781604862881
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Art General

Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today is a major collection of contemporary politically and socially engaged printmaking. This full-color book showcases print art that uses themes of social justice and global equity to engage community members in political conversation. Based on an art exhibition that has traveled to a dozen cities in North America, Paper Politics features artwork by over 200 international artists; an eclectic collection of work by both activist and non-activist printmakers who have felt the need to respond to the monumental trends and events of our times.

Paper Politics presents a breathtaking tour of the many modalities of printing by hand: relief, intaglio, lithography, serigraph, collagraph, monotype, and photography. In addition to these techniques, included are more traditional media used to convey political thought, finely crafted stencils and silk-screens intended for wheat pasting in the street. Artists range from the well established (Sue Coe, Swoon, Carlos Cortez) to the up-and-coming (Favianna Rodriguez, Chris Stain, Nicole Schulman), from street artists (BORF, You Are Beautiful) to rock poster makers (EMEK, Bughouse).

index

5+5 Gallery, 11, 136

9/11. See September 11th

Abela, Melba, 49, 137

Abraham, Irene, 54, 137

Abu Ghraib, 37, 59

abuse, 66, 73, 124, 143

Adams, Larry, 131

Afghanistan, 8, 31, 121

Africa, 33, 74, 75, 80, 142, 145

aggression, 53

airplanes, 31, 42, 59, 63, 65

alienation, 29, 130

American Artists Congress, 16

anarchism, 22, 85, 96, 104, 114, 116, 128, 131

Andrews, Morgan F.P., 84, 137

animals, 4, 17, 28, 32, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 45, 48, 50, 61, 62, 67, 69, 70, 71, 72, 76–77, 80, 81, 82, 84, 87, 88, 90, 91, 97, 104, 109, 110–111, 114, 124, 126, 127, 128, 131, 132–133, 134, 142, 144

Anti-Capitalist Ass Pirates, 114, 137

apartheid, 27

Arabic, 59, 73, 102, 110–111

Argentina, 92–93, 138, 147

arrows, 55, 59, 101, 106, 115, 117, 127

ASARO (Oaxacan Assembly of Revolutionary Artists), 86, 137

Attard, Janet, 116, 137

Australia, 139, 140, 145, 147

awareness, 113, 146

Bail, Jon Paul, 42, 137

Ballant, Lindsay, 91, 137

banners. See signs

barbed wire, 22, 42, 69

Barraza, Jesus, 131, 137

Barron, Paul, 84

Bassis, Aileen, 120, 137

Bauer, Brandon, 7, 60, 137

bear, 62, 81

Benjamin, Walter, 130

bicycles, 116, 124, 137, 140, 143, 145

bin Laden, Osama, 31, 85

birds, 4, 32, 40, 42, 61, 80, 81, 82, 87, 88, 90, 91, 97, 109, 124, 127, 128, 144

blindfold, 26

block print, 3, 4, 6, 7, 14, 17, 107, 148

Boerer, Erok, 84, 137

bolt cutters, 84

bombs/bombing, 15, 22, 36, 53, 55, 61, 63, 64, 65, 72, 73, 74, 96, 1...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Copyright Page
• Title Page
• table of contents
• Politics on Paper
• Paper Politics Exhibition History
• Political Art and Printmaking: A Brief and Partial History
• All the Instruments Agree
• Repression
• Aggression
• Resistance
• Existence
• Acknowledgements
• Artist Info
• Index