See America: WPA Posters and the Mapping of a New Deal Democracy

Pillen, Cory

doi:10.1111/j.1542-734x.2008.00663.x

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“…Less familiar journals in adjacent fields likewise offer critical histories explicitly connected to visual communication design. Particularly engaging examples emerge in relationship to data visualization (Burke 2009;Costigan-Eaves and Macdonald-Ross 1990;Kimball 2006;Pillen 2008). The years since 2011 have seen continued historical research; examples abound and even a short list must be far from inclusive (Al Najdi and McCrea 2012;Bartal 2013;Black 2012;Carey 2011;Christensen 2015;Kramer 2013;Young 2015).…”

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Histories of Visual Communication Design

Griffin¹

2021

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In this article, the history of visual communication design provides an area of thematic convergence. The research represented here engages typographic communication, an area of investigation familiar to the journal's readership. Yet its significance extends beyond illuminating the historical context of singular designs or designers. Collectively, the authors in this issue join a broader and sustained interdisciplinary conversation between design history and visual communication design practice. Situating their research relative to this shared context expands its relevance beyond their discrete areas of focus. At its inception, the history of visual communication design relied on the intuition of practitioners and the connoisseurship of collectors; its narrative prioritized aesthetic styles and eminent designers. The first sustained calls to move beyond such a conceptualization emerged in 1983 at Coming of Age: The First Symposium on the History of Graphic Design.

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Histories of Visual Communication Design

Griffin¹

2021

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“…In addition, other FWP projects such as Land of Nakoda: The Story of the Assiniboine Indians and "I Will Be Meat for My Salish": The Montana Writers Project and the Buffalo of the Flathead Indian Reservation were projects undertaken by educated members of their respective tribal communities to correct the "failings" of previous ethnographic works as well as to preserve oral traditions within the contemporary context of changing reservation life. 38 Unlike the FWP guides, Native communities had total control over the representation of oral history and contemporary life in these projects. And equally, other FWP projects, such as "Henry Mitchell, Indian Canoe Maker," created an oral history account of a Penobscot who claims Native identity while both criticizing the commodification of that identity and living a "modern" life as a factory worker and urban city dweller.…”

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“Travels of an American Indian into the Hinterlands of Soviet Russia”: Rethinking Indigenous Modernity and the Popular Front in the Work of Archie Phinney and D’Arcy McNickle

Balthaser¹

2014

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After returning from a five-year journey to the Soviet Union in the late 1930s, Nez Perce anthropologist Archie Phinney urged formally educated Indians to go “beyond old tribal horizons toward a racial identity” to link Native struggles for self-determination with racial struggles for justice in the United States and abroad. Pan-Indian, cosmopolitan, and self-reflexively modern, Phinney represented a crucial link between Native American intellectuals in the 1930s and 1940s and other radical intellectuals of color. While Phinney was perhaps the most prominent Native American to openly support the Soviet Union, a small but nonetheless visible presence of Native Americans in socialist organizations created unemployed councils on reservations, agitated for extended federal aide to Native communities, fought against the deportation of Mexican Americans in San Francisco, and even ran for the US Senate on the Communist Party ticket. These social movements suggests ways we can reread the first modern Native American novel, D’Arcy McNickle’s The Surrounded , in context of the 1930s transnational movements, deploying theories of minority self-determination to suggest an indigenous nationalism in conversation with third-world liberation movements around the world. Together, these sources shed light on how Native American contributions helped shape the “radical modernity” of the Popular Front era, as well as how Native American intellectuals deployed ideas of modernity to fashion new forms of indigenous sovereignty.

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The Cambridge History of Native American Literature

2020

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See America: WPA Posters and the Mapping of a New Deal Democracy

Cited by 37 publications

References 13 publications

Histories of Visual Communication Design

Histories of Visual Communication Design

“Travels of an American Indian into the Hinterlands of Soviet Russia”: Rethinking Indigenous Modernity and the Popular Front in the Work of Archie Phinney and D’Arcy McNickle

The Cambridge History of Native American Literature

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