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Art historian publishes article on interracial labor graphics John Ott has published “Graphic Consciousness: The Visual Cultures of Integrated Industrial Unions at Midcentury” in the December 2014 issue of American Quarterly, the journal of the American Studies Association. Snippet: For a brief time, and under unusual circumstances, graphic artists and labor leaders collaborated to create a pluralistic visual culture exceptional for the period. A larger cultural ecology of labor interracialism promoted by San Francisco’s California Labor School and the Bay Area CIO over the 1940s allowed print artists like Giacomo Patri to create visual culture that was more affordable, accessible, inherently collaborative, and, above all, responsive to a multiracial working-class patronage and audience. For more information, follow or copy this link into your browser: muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_quarterly/toc/aq.66.4.html
Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 00:55:59 +0000

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