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4th October 2000

Posters American Style

“The purpose of American posters has always been to grab the individual and the collective consciousness and demand attention and action. Whatever the message — from urgent appeals to patriotism to voices raised in protest, from pleas for environmentalism to seductive suggestions urging us to buy jeans — the poster reflects the explosion of ideas in the twentieth century, both intellectual and visual.”

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