Women in Posters, Comics and Hip Hop Album and Poster Art, Andrea Zittel
Zach gave a presentation on women in poster art today in my propaganda class.
Some artists and prints he referenced:
- David Lance Goines, Howl, 1983
- William Bradley, Stone, Kimball, The Chap Book, 1895
- Edward Penfield, YWCA, 1917-18
- Howard Chandler Christy, If You Want to Fight, Join the Marines, 1918
- J Howard Miller, We Can Do It, 1942
- Unknown, Girls Say Yes to Boys Who Say No, 1968
- Saul Bass, Vertigo, 1958
- Paul Davis, For Colored Girls, 1978
- Easter Hernandez, Sun Mad Raisins, 1982
- Frank Kozik, Nine Inch Nails, 1994
- Guerilla Girls, Do Women Have To Be Naked To Get Into The Met Museum, 1989
Another presentation, on comics and hip hop posters/album art
- del, No Need For Alarm, Scott Idleman
- Outkast, Atliens
- GZA/Genius, Liquid Swords, Denny Cohen (also, Lone Wolf & Cub references)
- RZA, Bobby Digital, Bill Sienkiewicz
- KMD, Black Bastards
- Dr Octagon, Pusshead (also a thrasher artist)
- Tribe Called Quest, The Low End Theory (not sure why this is comics-related)
Some punk and new wave poster books:
- Hardcore California by Peter Balisito
- Trespass by Carlo McCormick
Someone talked about Glen E Friedman and My Rules Photozine, apparently the most widely distributed punk zine of all time. Raymond Pettibone, the artist for all of the Black Flag posters, came up again. There’s an Art:21 episode about him too. We watched the first hour of Bomb It and Aaron suggested watching Wild Style. Someone mentioned the Keith Haring altarpiece in Grace Cathedral. Basquiat came up, of course, and the recent movies about him as well.
Finally there was an Andrea Zittel talk on campus tonight. She talked about her work, from her early performance pieces about the construction and conception of time, exploring what it would be like to live without time, to her later work about compartmentalization and space. Some recurring themes in her talk: freedom and liberation vs restriction, the real lived experience attached to art, and creativity within rules. Some interesting thoughts: Is variety a form of freedom? Is freedom a grand thing, or can it be simply becoming smaller and shrinking between the cracks of bureaucracy? How can propaganda and advertisements feel more honest than other forms of visual communication? She ended by talking about her recent ruleset art, which basically struck me as non-computational generative art.
After the talk, I headed up to the studio to coat my screens with emulsion, print some film, and tear paper. Hopefully after class tomorrow evening I’ll be able to get into the studio and be productive almost right away.
