ANDY HEDGECOCK is entertained by a playful novel that embeds a fictional game at its heart
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100 Posters that Changed the World
(L to R) New Deal Works Progress Administration (WPA) Planned Housing poster; Civil rights movement US, I am a Man; Stonewall, Some Poeple are Gay. Get over it! campaign poster; Family Planning Association (FPA, UK) 1970 ‘Pregnant Man’ campaign poster
Death comes for Liberals, entitled murder, Vatican hit squads, and fraternising with the Blitz killer
New releases from Public Image Ltd, William Basinski, and John Luther Adams
GABRIELE NEHER draws attention to an astoundingly skilled Flemish painter who defied the notion that women cannot paint like men
The Bard pays homage to Hull’s finest promoter and venue, and awards Douze Points to Laibach
KEVIN DONNELLY outlines how the bourgeois institutions inhibit our ability to to view art in revolutionary ways, and suggests some tactics to overturn it
GRANDIOSE marketing statements, like the claim contained in the title of this book, might invite disappointment from the discerning reader as inevitably more than a few posters included may not live up to the hype.
And, as is the case here, many classics are notable by their absence — Atelier Populaire, Rosta posters, Gustav Klutsis and Polish film and theatre posters among them.
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