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Offline DekeThornton

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January 2017
« on: January 04, 2017, 02:25:34 AM »
I am digging this poster I just got in the mail today.  It falls into both the travel and propaganda categories, as it is an American Airlines poster touting the unity between "three great allies".


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Re: January 2017
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2017, 02:10:55 AM »
Some nice propaganda pieces today.

First off, a poster with caricatures of Mexican presidents (from 1944):


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Re: January 2017
« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2017, 02:11:50 AM »
A Mexican WWII poster expressing support of the USSR:


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Re: January 2017
« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2017, 02:13:15 AM »
Mexican anti-fascist poster from 1939:


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Re: January 2017
« Reply #4 on: January 05, 2017, 02:14:54 AM »
Poster from the First Latin American Youth Congress in 1960:

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Re: January 2017
« Reply #5 on: January 05, 2017, 02:22:06 AM »
Mexican poster denouncing the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in 1953: "Let's not forget Julius & Ethel Rosenberg"

There may have been legitimate quibbles with how the Rosenberg case was handled as well as the application of the death penalty, but this poster is stretching quite a bit to say that the Rosenbergs were executed for "loving and believing in peace."


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Re: January 2017
« Reply #6 on: January 05, 2017, 02:28:14 AM »
Poster from 1959 commemorating the miners' strike in Nueva Rosita of 1950.  The striking miners marched all the way from Nueva Rosita, Coahuila to Mexico City, over 1000km.


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Re: January 2017
« Reply #7 on: January 08, 2017, 01:24:53 AM »
I bought this "Jugoslav Guerrillas - The Second Front in Europe" poster not knowing much about it.  The few other sales/auction listings and results I found didn't have much additional information beyond what is self-evident from the poster itself, i.e. it is a WWII propaganda poster in support of Yugoslav guerrillas.

But I had some questions:
Who distributed it? Where was it distributed? Why use artwork by a Mexican artist?

Then some Googling led me to this US government document which mentions the poster: https://www.fara.gov/reports/Archive/1942-1944_FARA.pdf

It is a report from the Department of Justice to Congress on the Administration of the Foreign Agents Act of 1938.  The document is a fascinating read in its own right.

It covers the activities of foreign agents (mostly from Allied countries) in the US from 1942-1944. My poster is mentioned on page 526. It was produced by the Yugoslav government-in-exile and distributed in the US.

If you are interested in WWII-era propaganda I highly recommend skimming to see if you find anything interesting.

I have also seen the same image from the poster as a standalone linocut art print.  I am still curious if it was commissioned specifically for the poster and then produced as an art print or if the art print came first and it was repurposed for the poster.  It's kind of a shame that the text obscures the image on the poster. Then again, I do like how "in your face" the bloody red text is.  It's nice to have some color injected compared to the usual black-and-white linocut prints.


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Re: January 2017
« Reply #8 on: January 08, 2017, 02:52:29 AM »
That's a powerhouse Deke.
Congratulations!
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