Welcome
to Docs Populi
dedicated to documenting and publishing oppositional artwork of the late 20th century
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Books and other published writing
Revolucion! Cuban Poster Art, Chronicle Books, 2003 (author)
Visions of Peace & Justice: 30 years of political posters from the archives of Inkworks Press, 2007 (editor)
Chinese Posters: Art from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Chronicle Books, 2007 (co-author)
Agitate! Educate! Organize! - American Labor Posters, Cornell University Press, expected April 2009 (co-author)
"Meshed Histories: The Influence of Screen Printing on Social Movement," AIGA Voice, 5/29/2009
Review of Miniature Messages: The Semiotics and Politics of Latin American Postage Stamps by Jack Child, A Contracorriente Spring 2009 pdf
Review of The Social and the real: Political Art of the 1930s in the Western Hemisphere, in Americas, January 2007
Review of Leopoldo Méndez: Revolutionary Art and the Mexican Print, in A Contracorriente, Spring 2008
Privatizing the Commons: The Commodification of New Deal Public Art, AIGA Voice , 1/6/2009
New World Coming: The Sixties and the Shaping of Global Consciousness, (illustrated essay), Between the Lines Press, Summer 2009
Recent presentations and exhibitions
Solo exhibit of posters, University of San Francisco Law School, 3/2008-7/2008
Art Works: The Ray Smith Symposium ; The Role of the Arts in U.S. Workers' Struggles, Syracuse University,
April 22-24, 2008
"Cuban Poster Art and the Spirit of Revolution," University of Oregon May 1, 2008.
"Database of American Labor Posters," Society of American Archivists, Labor Archives Roundtable, Wednesday August 27, 2008.
Posters loaned for exhibition at the Chinese Culture Center on three Bay Area Chinese-American printmakers 10/2008-1/2009
"Latin American Political Poster Art," Emory University, October 15, 2008
"Archives of Dissent," panel discussion at U.C. Berkeley 9/18/2008 - YouTube
"The role of the WPA in building American printmaking," presentation at
Reviving the New Deal forum, City College of San Francisco, 10/17/2008
Upcoming presentations
Chinese Posters: Art from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, U.C. Berkeley Institute of East Asian Studies, 1/28/2009
Web articles
"Poster collection chronicles counterculture movement," interview in Oakland Tribune 8/7/2008
Circa 1920 religious posters found in wall of my home
Poster of the British slave ship Brookes, 1789
Interview with Lincoln Cushing about political posters in PLAZM magazine
"A librarian champions political poster art," Library Journal Academic Newswire, 5/31/2007
"Red all over", article in AIGA Voice on U.S.-China-Cuba graphics
Bancroftiana article on 1930s UC antiwar images and archives (pdf)
Unprocessed social movement collections at UC Berkeley
A brief history of the "clenched fist" image
H.K. Yuen Archive of San Francisco Bay Area Social Movement History
Origins of the Black Panther Party logo
1970 UC Berkeley antiwar poster workshop archive
Latin American poster collections at the UC Berkeley Bancroft Library
Recent books on political poster art
Stop the Olympic Prison
poster, 1980 Winter Olympics
Many of the images in these archives are available as high-resolution files; see "Image use agreement and fee structure"