Books on Contemporary Social Justice Posters
The Design of Dissent, Expanded Edition by Call Number: NC1806.8 .G58 2017
Don't Sleep: The Urgent Messages of Oliver Munday by Call Number: NC999.4.M86 A4 2018
Graphic Advocacy: International Posters for the Digital Age by Call Number: NC1806.9 .G73 2014
Green Patriot Posters: Images for a New Activism by Call Number: NC1849.S87 G74 2010
Just Seeds RESOURCED Portfolio by Call Number: [ArtBk] GE195 .R47 2010
Posters for Change by Call Number: NC1849.S54 P67 2018
A World of Questions by Call Number: NC1850.M378 A4 2015
Books on What Makes a Good Poster
How Posters Work by
Call Number: NC1825.N49 C665 2015
Poster Power! Great Posters and How to Make Them by Call Number: NC1810 .S37 2017
Books on the History of Posters
Black Panther: the Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas by Call Number: NC1850.D68 B53 2007
Chinese Propaganda Posters by Call Number: NC1807.C5 C45 2015
Posters: A Concise History by Call Number: NC1806.45 .B37 1994
Posters for the People: Art of the WPA by Call Number: NC1807.U5 C37 2008
See Red Women's Workshop by Call Number: NC1849.W65 S74 2016
Signs of Resistance: A Visual History of Protest in America by Call Number: HN57 .S524 2018
Soviet Posters by Call Number: NC1807.S65 L35 2008
How to Create a Political Poster with Favianna Rodriguez
Posters in the MassArt Library
The MassArt Library has a large collection of political and social justice posters dating from the 1940s to the present. Some were done by the Graphic Workshop, a group of MassArt students and faculty who were opposed to the Vietnam War. Professor Liz Resnick has donated many others. Posters in the collection deal with AIDS, climate change, racism, misogyny, reproductive rights, Covid, and many other issues.
Faculty can schedule a showing of the posters to their class by contacting Greg Wallace in the Library. Those wishing to make an individual appointment can contact Clarabel Smith
Image: Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, 2021
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