Peter Kennard

Peter Kennard

Description

This fully illustrated anthology showcases key images from Peter Kennard's work as Britain's foremost political artist over the last fifty years.



The book centres around Kennard's images, photomontages and illustrations from protests, year by year, which provoked public outrage; including Israel/Palestine protests, anti-nuclear protests, responses to austerity, climate destruction, and more. Each image is accompanied by captions detailing not only the events in question, but Kennard's approach to the work, including the genesis of the images and the techniques employed.



Ultimately, the book highlights Kennard's extraordinary contribution to political art in the twenty-first century.

Series Preface

Preface

1. Feminist Futures: A Conditional Paeon for the Anything-Digital

2. Scale, Subject and Stories: Unreal Objects

3. Bland Ambition? Automation's Missing Visions

4. Driving at the Anthropocene, or, Let's Get Out of Here: How?

5. Technological Feminism and Digital Futures

Bibliography

Sujets

• Political Advocacy
• Political Process
• Political Science
• Techniques
• Fotomontaje
• Advocacy group
• History of art
• 21st century
• Iraq War
• Post-war
• General officer
• General
• History
• Photomontage
• Technique
• ART

Informations

• Publié par: Pluto Press
• Date de parution: 20 août 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781786804952
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 38 Mo

Extrait

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Acknowledgements Bigthankstomysons,DanandMatt, who’ve workedwithmefromthebook’sinceptiontoits completionandwithoutwhomitwouldnever havebeenmade.They’vebeenamazing. Also, bigthankstoPeterBrawneforhisgreatdesign andtotalinvolvementineveryaspectofthe bookandtoJennyMatthewsforherinvaluable workbothinthemakingandphotographingof anumberof thephotomontagesinthebook.

ThanksalsotoJudyBarker,AnneBeech,Rich HobbsandRichardSlocombefortheirvital inputandtoPaulHamlynFoundation,Royal CollegeofArtResearch&InnovationandPluto Pressfortheirsupportandencouragement.

Ifanyreaderswant tovieworiginalsof the workinthisbook,manyareavailableinLondon forfreepublicviewinginthecollectionsof Tate,ImperialWarMuseum,Victoria&Albert Museum,ScienceMuseum,BritishMuseum, NationalPortraitGallery,aswellaswithinthe a/politicalcollection. – PK

‘The present not only has its roots in the past,it coexists with it everyday. Here. Now. ’ Always.

– Agnieska Holland

‘Walls turned sideways are bridges.’

– Angela Davis

1969: Kissinger

20 January:Henry Kissinger is appointed as national security advisor in the new Nixon administration, becom- ing the president’s most influential foreign policy adviser. He takes over the running of the brutal Vietnam War, which left a million Vietnamese dead, but as estimates vary it could be many more. Kissinger expands the war to include saturation bombing campaigns of neighbour- ing Cambodia and Laos, countries with whom the US is not officially at war. One Finnish government study estimates that half a million people died in the first phase of the illegal and secret bombing of Cambodia. Kissinger goes on to serve as secretary of state in the Gerald Ford administration, giving the green light to In- donesian dictator, General Suharto, to commit genocide in East Timor. Kissinger is also one of the masterminds behind the overthrow of the democratically elected and constitutional government of Chile, and the subsequent installation of a 17-year-long fascist dictatorship.

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 So how to picture Kissinger? At first, I made a rough, in which hands with magnifying glasses over Kissinger’s face contain photos of bombing and the victims of his policies as secretary of state (left). Then, to make the image more direct, I tried to make his portrait actually embody these elements so that they didn’t come from outside, but were integral to his image. In the darkroom, I printed a B52 bomber, as used by the US in Vietnam and Cambodia, onto his forehead. I then filled the frame of his glasses with the US flag and a severely wounded child, a victim of US bombing in Vietnam. Windows, glasses and magnifying glasses are all ‘given frames’ that can be filled with the results of oppres- sion through the use of photomontage. The causes and results of war are brought together into a single image.

1970: Kent State

4 May:Four students are shot dead by National Guardsmen while peacefully protesting against the Vietnam War on the campus of Kent State University in Ohio, USA.

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 In reaction to this, I made my first image, intended to be pasted up in the street (right). It was based on what became an infamous photo of one of the students lying dead on the ground. Together with fellow art students, I fly-posted a stack of them around London as a temporary memorial to the four who had been killed, and to show solidarity with the thousands of American students rebelling against the war. Because the prints were made as water-based dye- lines, and printed in red, when it rained they appeared to be bleeding in the streets. Those that weren’t pulled down became blank sheets which were used as noticeboards for anti-war slogans and messages.