Election Propaganda

November 5, 2016

Stressed out about the election?? Us too! Pour yourself a sizable glass of wine and join the Babes as they examine the role of visual art in various political elections around the world including Art for Obama, Mousavi's Green Movement, the revolutionary street art of Mexico, & some fun responses to the hot mess that is the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Sources

Fairey, Shepard, and Jennifer Gross, ed. Art for Obama: Designing Manifest Hope and the Campaign for Change. New York: Abrams Image, 2009.

Grigor, Talinn. Contemporary Iranian Art: From the Street to the Studio. London: ReaktionBooks, 2014.

Seidman, Steven A. Posters, Propaganda, and Persuasion in Election Campaigns from Around the World and Through History. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 2008.

Links

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w4Ku6l7OEI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgB330sLRYU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7TeTzOgkMs

http://hyperallergic.com/318143/street-artists-erect-nude-sculpture-of-donald-trump-in-new-yorks-union-square/

http://gothamist.com/2016/10/10/pro_trump_art_show.php#photo-2

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/10/19/nude-hillary-statue-vs-nude-trump-statue-fair-game-or-sexist/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/plastic-jesus-trump-wall_us_578f8fe8e4b0f180da63ca82

http://fusion.net/story/218490/check-out-this-mexican-graffiti-drone-thats-taking-protest-to-new-heights/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=/wp-admin/post.php

https://finemingling.wordpress.com/2012/06/20/mexican-election-propaganda/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=UqU2MN9UQEo