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by TheaGood
on 19/11/16
“However, this is not a central issue for many activists on the Left who still hold the traditional belief that the word is more important than the image for making political statements. Until The Masses appeared most Leftist editors paid little attention to art. And after it folded, few subsequent radical publications gave any emphasis to their visual format. The Students for a Democratic Society journal Radical America began in 1967 with a cheaply reproduced offset format, and in its later incarnation it has not changed very much even though the editors have recently added color and occasional drawings to the covers… Thus, there is a need to pay greater attention to the potential power of images in Left political publications.” – Victor Margolin, “Rebellion, Reform, and Revolution: American Design for Social Change.”