Political Protest and Street Art: Popular Tools for by Lyman Chaffee

By Lyman Chaffee

This first cross-national book-length examine of highway paintings as political protest and verbal exchange makes a speciality of artwork types typically utilized by collectives and nation pursuits within the Hispanic world--posters, wallpaintings, graffiti, work of art, shirts, buttons, and stickers, for instance. Professor Chaffee examines the factors in the back of using highway paintings as propaganda and seeks to provide an explanation for the way it is efficacious. utilizing box examine and a sociopolitical procedure, he assesses modern highway artwork in Spain, the Basque state, Argentina, and Brazil. He exhibits how road artwork is a barometer of renowned conflicts and sentiments around the political spectrum. This comparative research is meant for college students, lecturers, and execs within the fields of verbal exchange, political technology, historical past, and well known culture.

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