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GRAPHIC ART
Drawings, Photographs, and Obituaries of Artists
​Graphic art and editorial cartoons were central to the editorial strategies of workers’ periodicals. Without the need for translations, images supported text in the transnational circulation of these periodicals. Additionally, drawings illustrated texts for busy workers or illiterate readers, providing a quick, interpretive, and interactive understanding of an editorial or predominant essay.
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Graphic art published in US antifascist periodicals exposed the state of terror perpetrated by European fascist powers and perceptively counteracted their propaganda. As visual discursive spaces, editorial cartoons endorsed the emotions of belonging to a transnational, antifascist, and proletarian community. They urged periodical readers to collectively consider the need for solidarity and the protection of the working-class culture under attack by fascism.
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Elegant and compassionate art reversed the dehumanization of fascism and sought to inspire ideas of interdependence and shared struggles among antifascist workers in the United States. Lastly, ​cartoons employed the rhetoric of playfulness about the possibilities of social change.​​​​​
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Funded by: 2020 Mellon Foundation Grant-in-aid of the US Latino Digital Humanities (USLDH) program, 2021 SHSU Fast Award, and 2022 SHSU Pilot grant.
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​Franco does not know how to reconstruct Spain after he has destroyed it. He lacks the knowledge of construction workers.
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Image: España Libre, 5 April 1940.
Feu on graphic art
Fighting Fascist Spain. The Huerta and Aragones Exhibits