Campaign Posters from Peter Max to Socialist Realism
That’s an Andy Warhol poster from 1972. It’s a sneaky one — a “dirty trick,” in the parlance of 1972.
It’s from a piece by Steven Heller in Saturday’s New York Times, the point of which is that this year’s “socialist realist” Obama poster is really nothing out of the ordinary — a judgment not intended as a slam at the Obama poster, but rather as a compliment to alternative graphics approaches in posters from past campaigns, some of which (including the Obama poster) are pictured in the Times story, here.