Art of Protest: Creating, Discovering, and Activating Art for Your Revolution - Hardcover

Nichols, De

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1536223255 ISBN 13: 9781536223255

Publisher: Big Picture Press, 2021

Synopsis

From Keith Haring to Extinction Rebellion, the civil rights movement to Black Lives Matter, what does a revolution look like? Discover the power of words and images in this thought-provoking look at protest art by highly acclaimed artivist De Nichols.

From the psychedelic typography used in “Make Love Not War” posters of the '60s to the solitary raised fist, some of the most memorable and striking protest artwork from across the world and throughout history deserves a long, hard look. Readers can explore each piece of art to understand how color, symbolism, technique, and typography play an important role in communication. Guided by activist, lecturer, and speaker De Nichols's powerful narrative and stunningly illustrated by a collaboration of young artists, this volume also has plenty of tips and ideas for creating your own revolutionary designs. This is a fully comprehensive look at the art of protest.

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About the Author

De Nichols is currently a Loeb Fellow in residence at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. As an arts-based organizer, social impact designer, serial entrepreneur, and keynote lecturer, she's mobilized change-makers nationwide to develop creative approaches to the social, civic, and racial justice issues that matter most within communities. One of her most celebrated works, The Mirror Casket, was cited in an article by Angela Davis entitled “The Art of Protest.”

Diana Dagadita is a graduate of Solent University in the UK, where they studied illustration. They're a freelance illustrator and printmaker currently living in London. Their first book, Printer's ABC, was published in 2019.

Olivia Twist is a London-based illustrator, arts facilitator, and lecturer who graduated from the Royal College of Art in the UK with an MA in Visual Communication. She won the Quentin Blake Narrative Drawing Prize in 2017, and was also featured in Taschen's 2019 Best 100 Illustrators From Around the World. She has been commissioned for the Wellcome Collection.

Molly Mendoza has a BFA from the Pacific Northwest College of Art and is a recipient of the RockStar Games Award from the 2015 Society of Illustrators Student Competition. Her first graphic novel, Skip, was published in 2019. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

Saddo is the pseudonym of Raul Oprea, a contemporary painter, muralist, and illustrator who has exhibited his work in galleries all over the world, including his home country, Romania, as well as in the United States, Canada, Austria, Denmark, and El Salvador. He was the founding member of the Playground, one of Romania’s first street art groups.

Diego Becas is an illustrator, designer, and multidisciplinary graphic artist based in Santiago, Chile. His work has been commissioned by many publishing houses, theaters, magazines, and festivals. He uses traditional methods and materials, including engraving, cut paper, wood, ink, watercolor, acrylic, and hand-lettering, usually working with a reduced color palette.

Reviews

Gr 6-10-Artivist De Nichols collaborates with four other artists to create a gorgeous tribute to art as a medium of social protest. Equal parts autobiography, instruction manual, and history book, this volume focuses on how art has been used in recent protests, including the 2014 Ferguson Uprising where De Nichols was the arts organizer on the ground. The author details the different types of art forms that can be used as a response to injustice: street art, public performance, music, photography, and poetry, among others. The book includes a time line of various moments in which art was integrated as part of a protest-from Francisco Goya in 19th-century Spain to anti-government rallies in Brazil in 2015. Scattered throughout are suggestions for young people on how they can use art to rally against oppressive forces. This heavily designed and illustrated work is striking, with a variety of art styles on display-collage, screen printing, woodcutting, painting. However, some readers might find the constant switching of media, tone, and subjects jarring. Spreads on typography and design are fascinating but impede the narrative flow of this mostly historical work. The volume concludes with an overview of youth-led movements, including the Parkland students and young climate activists. Portraits and short bios of some of these young leaders making an impact will inspire teens to make a difference themselves. VERDICT Arresting images, valuable insights and practical applications, and an empowering message make this a highly recommended purchase for art and social studies curricula and displays.-Shelley M. Diaz, School Library Journalα(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Edition details

• Publisher: Big Picture Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1536223255
• ISBN 13: 9781536223255
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Various
• Number of pages: 80