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Question 6: To what extent has Graphic Design constructed our understanding or view of historical events and perceptions of truth?

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A specific area of interest within this question is Dadaism and the Anti-War Art movement in Europe and New York from 1915 to 1923. It was an artistic revolt and protest against traditional beliefs of a pro-war society, and also fought against sexism/racism to a lesser degree. The work was very avant-garde at the time as it was so experimental, using photo montage and college. This style was so revolutionary and would then go on to influence the major movement - Post Modernism. Marcel Duchamp, declared common, manufactured goods to be “readymade� artworks, radically challenging the notion of a work of art as something beautiful made by a technically skilled artist.

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5 Relevant Subjects Dadasim/The Anti-War Movement Nazi Propaganda Propaganda in North Korea Subcultures Vietman War/CND campaign

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Design is one of the few disciplines that is a science as well as an art.

Effective, meaningful design requires intellectual, rational rigor along with the ability to elicit emotions and beliefs. Thus, designers must balance both the logic and lyricism of humanity every time they design something, a task that requires a singularly mysterious skill.

- Debbie Milkman, How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda."

—Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951 What is really important in the world of doublespeak is the ability to lie, whether knowingly or unconsciously, and to get away with it; and the ability to use lies and choose and shape facts selectively, blocking out those that don’t fit an agenda or program - Edward Herman “Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.”

- Chip Kidd, “Art is nothing more than creating an emotion in your own form.”

- Shannon L. Alder

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5 Books P Jobbing. Graphic Design: Reproduction and Representation Since 1800. 1996. UK: Manchester University Press S, Eskilson. Graphic Design: A New History, Second Edition.

2012. USA: Yale University Press J, Frascara. User-Centred Graphic Design: Mass Communication And Social Change. 1997. USA: CRC Press.

Euthanasia. The Significance of Propaganda to the Graphic Design Discipline. 1994 M, Lavin. Clean New World: Culture, Politics, and Graphic Design. 2002. USA: MIT Press

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5 Websites http://guity-novin.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/chapter-29-propaganda-po sters.html http://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/graphic_arts_and_a dvertising_as_war_propaganda http://time.com/3881351/world-war-i-posters-the-graphic-art-of-prop aganda/ https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/06/100-years-of-propagan da-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/ http://www.cruzine.com/2010/09/16/design-propaganda/

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