Hope: A Collection of Obama Posters and Prints - Hardcover

Wert, Hal Elliott

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 076033787X ISBN 13: 9780760337875

Verlag: Zenith Press, 2009

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Winner, Benjamin Franklin Award™ (Independent Book Publishers Association), Political/Current Events category

In Hope: A Collection of Obama Posters and Prints, Kansas City Art Institute professor Hal Elliott Wert unveils one of the largest Barack Obama campaign poster collections in existence. This is a collection to be treasured by everyone who was inspired and mobilized by the Obama campaign.

Among the unique features of this landmark book:

• More than 170 posters from Hal Wert’s personal collection
• A Catalog of Posters and Prints with background information on each featured piece
• The social and political context of the Obama poster movement and its place in the history of American presidential campaign art
• Foreword by Ray Noland, the street artist credited with starting the nationwide guerrilla poster movement in support of Obama
• The interior of the dust jacket folds out into a full-color reproduction of artist David Choe’s Hope poster

A portion of this book’s proceeds fund the National Art Education Association.

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Hal Elliott Wert has been a professor at the Kansas City Art Institute since 1972. He has authored a number of publications, book reviews, and papers on a range of subjects. He has spoken at numerous art galleries and has written many articles on presidential politics and campaign posters, including a feature on the Obama poster movement for Review magazine. His traveling exhibition, featuring many signed-and-numbered, limited-edition posters included in this book, was done in partnership with the Mid-America Arts Alliance.

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In Hope: A Collection of Obama Posters and Prints, Kansas City Art Institute professor Hal Elliott Wert unveils one of the largest Barack Obama campaign poster collections in existence. This is a collection to be treasured by everyone who was inspired and mobilized by the Obama campaign.

Among the unique features of this landmark book:

· More than 170 posters from Hal Wert s personal collection

· A Catalog of Posters and Prints with background information on each featured piece

· The social and political context of the Obama poster movement and its place in the history of American presidential campaign art

· Foreword by Ray Noland, the street artist credited with starting the nationwide guerrilla poster movement in support of Obama

· The interior of the dust jacket folds out into a full-color reproduction of artist David Choe s Hope poster

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Hope: A Collection of Obama Posters and Prints offers a striking and comprehensive visual chronology of artwork created during Obama s historic run for the presidency. Until now, most of these posters have been seen only by a limited number of viewers in the primary states. Others have rarely been seen outside the urban core or the art gallery world.

Hal Elliott Wert has been a professor at the Kansas City Art Institute since 1972. He has authored a number of publications, book reviews, and papers on a range of subjects. He has spoken at numerous art galleries and has written many articles on presidential politics and campaign posters, including a feature on the Obama poster movement for Review magazine. His traveling exhibition, featuring many signed-and-numbered, limited-edition posters included in this book, was done in partnership with the Mid-America Arts Alliance.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Zenith Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 076033787X
• ISBN 13: 9780760337875
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 188
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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