THE ART OF REVOLUTION: HOW POSTERS SWAYED MINDS, FORGED NATIONS AND PLAYED THEIR PART IN THE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENTS OF THE EARLY 20th CENTURY

John Callow is Director of archives at the marx Memorial Library, London. He is the author of seven books on history and politics, including Marx in London and Change the World, the official history of Amicus the Union.Grant Pooke is a Senior Lecturer in the History & Philosophy of Art Department at the University of Kent. He is the author of several books including Francis Klingender 1907-1955: A Marxist Art Historian Out of Time and Contemporary British Art: an Introduction.Together with Jane Powell (a researcher specializing in Modernist American Photography at the University of Kent) they were responsible for the Leverhulme funded project, which ran between 2008-10, to catalogue and conserve the unique collection of political posters held at the Marx Memorial Library.John Callow is Director of archives at the marx Memorial Library, London. He is the author of seven books on history and politics, including Marx in London and Change the World, the official history of Amicus the Union.Grant Pooke is a Senior Lecturer in the History & Philosophy of Art Department at the University of Kent. He is the author of several books including Francis Klingender 1907-1955: A Marxist Art Historian Out of Time and Contemporary British Art: an Introduction.Together with Jane Powell (a researcher specializing in Modernist American Photography at the University of Kent) they were responsible for the Leverhulme funded project, which ran between 2008-10, to catalogue and conserve the unique collection of political posters held at the Marx Memorial Library.John Callow is Director of archives at the marx Memorial Library, London. He is the author of seven books on history and politics, including Marx in London and Change the World, the official history of Amicus the Union.Grant Pooke is a Senior Lecturer in the History & Philosophy of Art Department at the University of Kent. He is the author of several books including Francis Klingender 1907-1955: A Marxist Art Historian Out of Time and Contemporary British Art: an Introduction.Together with Jane Powell (a researcher specializing in Modernist American Photography at the University of Kent) they were responsible for the Leverhulme funded project, which ran between 2008-10, to catalogue and conserve the unique collection of political posters held at the Marx Memorial Library.