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Graphic Art
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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 emotions brought forth by belonging to a transnational, antifascist, and proletarian community. They urged periodical readers to collectively consider the need for solidarity and protecting the working-class culture under attack by fascism.
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Graphic art published in antifascist periodicals exposed the state of terror perpetrated by European fascist powers and perceptively counteracted their propaganda. As visual discursive spaces, editorial cartoons endorsed emotions brought forth by belonging to a transnational, antifascist, and proletarian community. They urged periodical readers to think collectively about the need for solidarity and the protection of the working-class culture under attack by fascism.
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Cartoons employed the rhetoric of playfulness to present possibilities of social change. 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.
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Image: España Libre, 5 April 1940.
