Synopses & Reviews
Continuing in the style of the first two volumes, this new installment in the Signal series features standout artwork and stories that includes the topics of Paredon Records, Quebec Spring, and partisan memorials in former Yugoslavia, among others. The series is dedicated to documenting the compelling graphics, art projects, and cultural movements of international resistance and liberation struggles. Readers will be inspired by not only fine and graphic arts but also political posters, comics, magazines, documentation of performances, and articles on the often overlooked but essential role these works have played in struggles around the world. Art and politics come together in this unique blend of media from across the globe.
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“Visually delectable and politically pointed.” —Political Media Review
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“If you are interested in the use of graphic art and communication in political struggles, dont miss the latest issue of Signal.” —Rick Poynor, Observatory
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“As a series, this is a great resource. Dunn and MacPhee are filling a void in terms of political graphics.” —Printeresting.org
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“Signal couldnt have arrived at a better time to reassure those of us using visual culture to enter a political discourse.” —Last Hours
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"Once again I am truly impressed by Signal. Its historical importance stretches across many areas including art, design, architecture, music, politics, protest and social history." —Nigel Ball, dubdog.co.uk
Synopsis
Continuing in the style of the first two volumes, this new installment in the Signal series features standout artwork and stories that includes the topics of Paredon Records, Quebec Spring, and partisan memorials in former Yugoslavia, among others. The series is dedicated to documenting the compelling graphics, art projects, and cultural movements of international resistance and liberation struggles. Readers will be inspired by not only fine and graphic arts but also political posters, comics, magazines, documentation of performances, and articles on the often overlooked but essential role these works have played in struggles around the world. Art and politics come together in this unique blend of media from across the globe.
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Signal is an ongoing book series dedicated to documenting and sharing compelling graphics, art projects, and cultural movements of international resistance and liberation struggles. Artists and cultural workers have been at the center of upheavals and revolts the world over, from the painters and poets in the Paris Commune to the poster makers and street theatre performers of the recent Occupy movement. Signal will bring these artists and their work to a new audience, digging deep through our common history to unearth their images and stories. We have no doubt that Signal will come to serve as a unique and irreplaceable resource for activist artists and academic researchers, as well as an active forum for critique of the role of art in revolution.
Highlights of the third volume ofSignal include:
- Sonic Internationalism: An Interview with Paredon Records Founder Barbara Dane
- Game of Destruction: Deltor Stencils the Enemies of Socialism by Stephen Goddard
- Organized Artists/Reproductive Resistance: Reflecting on the Medu Arts Ensemble
- Quebec Spring: Striking Culture by David Widgington
- Memories of Revolution: Yugoslav Partisan Memorials by Robert Burghardt and Gal Kirn
In the US there is a tendency to focus only on the artworks produced within our shores or from English speaking producers. Signal reaches beyond those bounds, bringing material produced the world over, translated from dozens of languages and collected from both the present and decades past. Though it is a full-color printed publication, Signal is not limited to the graphic arts. Within its pages you will find political posters and fine arts, comics and murals, street art, site-specific works, zines, art collectives, documentation of performance and articles on the often overlooked but essential role all of these have played in struggles around the world.
About the Author
Alec Dunn is an illustrator and a printer who has designed book and record covers, political graphics, and punk fliers. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Josh MacPhee is an artist, a curator, an activist, the coeditor of Realizing the Impossible and Reproduce and Revolt, and the author of Paper Politics. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.