Reproduce and Revolt: A Graphic Toolbox for the 21st Century Activist

12May08

Reproduce and Revolt: A Graphic Toolbox for the 21st Century Activist
Edited by Josh MacPhee and Favianna Rodriguez

Reproduce and Revolt is an extensive bilingual (English/Spanish) collective of radical imagery collected from around the world. A clip-art collection of visual protest, the book includes over 500 public domain images that are ready to become posters, stickers, t-shirts and stencils in your local freedom movement. The striking one color designs encompass a wide range of good causes familiar to the liberal arts protest crowd: anti-war, pro-womyn, anti-capitalist, pro-bicycle, pro-indigenous, pro-environment, anti-globalization and a number of other movements you should either be for or against.

The visual landscape is one the key battlegrounds in the modern culture war and global struggles for liberation. Using tools that have been perfected by the Hip-Hop generation, this book provides a starting point for activists and culture-jammers to add their voices to the mix and counter the pro-empire marketplace of global commercial design.

In their collection, Macphee and Rodriguez stray from the elements of the modern street-art scene that lean towards the intellectual navel-gazing stylings of the art world. Not content to simply paint the public space pretty, Reproduce and Revolt aims to mobilize these methods into a movement, all while leaving a mark and making a point to upset the setup.

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Josh MacPhee & Favianna Rodriguez (eds.)
Reproduce & Revolt/Reproduce Y Rebélate

$18 ($19.95 cover price) |196 pages | 10.5″x8″ | Soft Skull Press

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