Catherine Moore and Megan Hauser | Political Illustration

Name: Catherine Moore and Megan Hauser | Political Illustration
Start: 2025-03-22T15:00:00-04:00
Location: A Cappella Books

Schedule

Sat, 22 Mar, 2025 at 03:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

A Cappella Books | Atlanta, GA

A compelling exploration of political art and visual culture, "Political Illustration" delves into how images shape public opinion, challenge authority, and serve as powerful tools of resistance.
A Cappella Books is welcomes co-authors Catherine Moore and Megan Hauser for a special afternoon book talk and signing in honor of their latest work, "Political Illustration: The Visual Language of Propaganda, Censorship, and Dissent."
This event is free and open to the public; copies of the book will be available for purchase.
About the Book
Through a variety of examples – from the coins of Julius Caesar to contemporary art challenging Indigenous American stereotypes – the book covers propaganda, the impact of media, censorship, and taboo, and the role of contentious politics and dissent art. A wide range of contemporary illustration mediums are included, including street art, the graphic novel, and mixed assemblage illustration, in order to examine the role of media and technique in political messaging. The book features breakout interviews and case studies on prominent global political illustrators (like Edel Rodriguez, Anita Kunz and Fabian Williams) and full color examples. The authors include an introduction to semiotics, visual grammar, and visual communication theory, and how these approaches contribute to the decoding of political messages – and how these tactics are used by those ruling, and those being ruled.
In particular, the authors look at political illustration, protest art and propaganda related to:
- American and European Imperialism
- Japanese internment
- The World Wars
- The Soviet Union and China
- Dictatorships in Africa and South America
- Civil Rights movements
- Contemporary protests and marches, including the Women's March (2017) and the Egyptian Revolution (2011)
- …and many more periods, events and movements.
About the Authors
Catherine Moore is an educator and illustrator, currently teaching at Georgia Gwinnett College in Lawrenceville, GA, USA. Catherine has illustrated multiple political figures, including President Joe Biden, John Lewis, and Justice Anthony Kennedy for The Washington Post, and Jimmy Carter for the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum.
Megan Hauser is a political scientist in the School of Government and International Affairs at Kennesaw State University, USA. Her research and publications focus on elections and electoral politics in Russia and Eastern Europe, including her 2019 book "Elections under Authoritarianism." She teaches courses in Comparative Politics, International Relations, and American Government. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Arizona. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia.