Liz McQuiston

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Publication Date: December 6, 1997
This work charts the use of graphics and related media in the fight for women's rights throughout the century. It encompasses many of the associated issues that have surrounded these movements, as well as some of the attacks launched against them.From the Suffragettes, through to the virtual-reality explorations of end-of-the-century cyberfeminists, it highlights both large orchestrated campaigns, and small, intense personal statements. The book is international in scope, examining the tension of organisations "staging fights" for women's rights around the world. McQuiston selects a variety of posters, badges, billboards, fashions, publications, logos, adverts, and computer graphics to reflect the ways in which women have created avenues for communication through their graphic expression.
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Amazon.com Review
Not a history book, but a compilation of sparkling, hard-hitting graphics on the international women's movement drawn from the fine arts, fashion, and advertising to comics, broadsheets, and cyberart. Liz McQuiston's vivid text and selections center on how design furthered campaigns exalting or denigrating a woman's place in the world. Biting humor and anger crop up throughout. An automaker's billboard boasting "If it were a lady it would get its bottom pinched" draws the memorable spray-painted response: "If this lady was a car, she'd run you down." Voting rights, abuse, girl power, abortion, and parity are a few of the subjects touched on in this wide-ranging, freewheeling book on design and propaganda.
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This exhaustive study reveals that little has actually changed in feminist protest art since the earliest handmade signs hit the streets.... This book rejects issues of esthetics in favor of the contexts in which art is made and the constituencies it serves. -- The New York Times Book Review, Steven Heller… (mais)