PRNT-411 Agit Prop

3 Credits

This course is an introduction to the world of socially engaged and agitational printmaking. It will introduce students to the use of print technologies as the vehicle for multiple forms of political speech as well as to enrich thinking around and engagement between practices of art and practices of politics. Students will proceed from a study of the history of politicized print media starting with the advent of the printing press through the use of print in contemporary social struggles and political campaigns.