How have images and designs been used as tools of social protest or propaganda?
"Where there is activism there are graphics"1, where there is politics there is graphic shock. Art and propaganda have gone hand in hand for hundreds of years. Communication via visual forms has enabled global concerns to be seen by everyone.
Our culture is lead by carefully crafted words and images, they can control and have the power to shape society's responses.
In 1916 an art movement began, that abandoned all forms of law and government, and threw off all tradition. Dada was based on principles of deliberate anarchy, rejection of beauty and believed in chance events.
"Art should altogether get a sound thrashing", Dadaist Richard Hulsenbeck, "and Dada stands for that thrashing with all the vehemence of its limited nature" 2 .
Photomontage offered a more direct way of producing propaganda imagery within the Dada movement. This technique required no specialist skills and therefore changes......
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