Gallery Guide for "Globalize THIS! International Graphics of Resistance"

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EARLY PERSPECTIVES
The first three posters in Globalize THIS! represent distinct ideological perspectives that
promoted globalization during the late 19th to the mid 20th century: Socialist, Pacifist and
Capitalist. Although this exhibition focuses on resistance to the economic and political
globalization dominating the world today, the worldwide protest movements are also a form of
globalization.
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Proletarier Aller Länder Vereinigt Euch!
Workers of all Countries Unite! Freedom equality brotherhood
Walter Crane
Offset, 1980s reproduction of 1889 woodcut / Germany
Walter Crane (1845‐1915), English artist, socialist, and part of the Arts and Crafts
movement, drew this in 1889, after May 1 had been chosen as International
Workers’ Solidarity Day. The figures represent the continents of Africa, Asia, the Americas,
Europe and Australia and emphasize the global reach of workers’ solidarity.
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Pour Le Désarmement Des Nations
For The Disarmament of Nations
Jean Carlu
Photo by André Vigneau
Lithograph, 1932 / France
Published by The Graphic Propaganda Office for the Peace
The carnage of World War I – known as the “War to End All Wars” – led to the emergence of a
global disarmament movement, as activists sought to reverse and eliminate the post‐war arms
competition they believed would lead to another war. This movement reached its peak when
the World Disarmament Conference convened in Geneva in February 1932. That same year,
renown French graphic designer, Jean Carlu, founded the Office de Propagande pour la Paix, a
non‐profit agency dedicated to preserving peace in Europe. This was the first poster he
produced for the organization.
Carlu described how he created the image using the basic structures of cubism: the sphere, the
triangle and the square. The sharp triangle represents the path of the falling bombs (a shape
which is echoed in the photograph of the child), and the sphere is the world threatened by war.
He was one of the first to use photographs in posters. Originally this image was intended to be
shown at the Union des Artistes Modernes exhibition held on February 4, 1932, at the Art
Decorative Museum in Paris. However, the president of the museum, who was already shocked
by the photographic work of The Stenberg Brothers and El Lissitzky, decided to censor Carlu's
poster and withdrew it from the show. The resulting scandal was so tumultuous that the
director re‐inserted the poster into the show only two days later. The woman in the
photomontage was Pauline Marie Pfeiffer (1895 –1951), the second wife of Ernest Hemingway.