Review: Posters
Minard’s retirement plans
Sandra Rendgen’s The Minard System re-contextualises in book form for the first time…
Action to the word
Dutch Posters 1997–2017 (Lecturis, €41.00, $59, £45), the successor to Dutch Posters…
Body of work
In our digital age, when every image is available and mutable, when pornography is…
Guts and gutters
The Brazilian art director and designer Bea Feitler (1938-82) said of magazines that…
Weimar volumes
The musical Cabaret gave a popular view of Berlin between the two world wars; the…
Fighting back with pictures
This is the third book which Liz McQuiston has written on graphic protest in the past…
A man of high purpose
Drawn from the magnificent archive of the artist’s family, this engaging centenary…
Violently opposed to war
Looking for images of ‘peace’ on the internet yields predictable and clichéd results…
Art without its bitter history
I have a problem with Stalin’s face. He looked exactly like my cat. Exactly. This led me…
Political imagery re-examined
One challenge of design and art historians today is how to analyse familiar material…