04089nam 2200889 450 991079737390332120230807221115.00-271-06735-710.1515/9780271067353(CKB)3710000000450484(SSID)ssj0001519976(PQKBManifestationID)12645101(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001519976(PQKBWorkID)11521529(PQKB)11224545(MiAaPQ)EBC6224665(DE-B1597)583938(DE-B1597)9780271067353(OCoLC)1253313866(EXLCZ)99371000000045048420200930d2015 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrPosters for peace visual rhetoric & civic action /Thomas W. BensonUniversity Park, Pennsylvania :Pennsylvania State University Press,[2015]©20151 online resource (x, 214 pages) illustrationsBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-271-06586-9 Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-205) and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Posters for Peace -- Posters for Peace: Visual Rhetoric and Civic Action -- A Time to Kill, and a Time to Heal -- Be Young and Shut Up -- Peace Is Patriotic -- We Are Exporting Democracy -- The Berkeley peace posters in the Penn State University Collection -- Plates -- Notes -- Sources -- IndexBy the spring of 1970, Americans were frustrated by continuing war in Vietnam and turmoil in the inner cities. Students on American college campuses opposed the war in growing numbers and joined with other citizens in ever-larger public demonstrations against the war. Some politicians—including Ronald Reagan, Spiro Agnew, and Richard Nixon—exploited the situation to cultivate anger against students. At the University of California at Berkeley, student leaders devoted themselves, along with many sympathetic faculty, to studying the war and working for peace. A group of art students designed, produced, and freely distributed thousands of antiwar posters. Posters for Peace tells the story of those posters, bringing to life their rhetorical iconography and restoring them to their place in the history of poster art and political street art. The posters are vivid, simple, direct, ironic, and often graphically beautiful. Thomas Benson shows that the student posters from Berkeley appealed to core patriotic values and to the legitimacy of democratic deliberation in a democracy—even in a time of war.Political posters, AmericanCaliforniaBerkeleyHistory20th centuryVietnam War, 1961-1975Protest movementsCaliforniaBerkeleyPostersUnited StatesPolitics and government1969-1974Posters1960s.Antiwar.Atelier Populaire.Berkeley.Deliberation.Dissent.Graffiti.Graphic art.Iraq War.Kent State.New Deal.Paris 1968.Paris.Peace.People’s Park.Political posters.Posters.Protest.Rhetoric.Richard M. Nixon.Rome.Silk screen.Spiro T. Agnew.Street art.Students.Vietnam War.Visual Rhetoric.War.Political posters, AmericanHistoryVietnam War, 1961-1975Protest movements959.70431Benson Thomas W.709735MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910797373903321Posters for peace3734420UNINA