Arte guerrilla

alteraciones, reinvenciones, subversiones visuales

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Gaza Forever by Sarah Fitzgerald

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México y Tacuarí

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Rivera Indarte y Saraza, bajo Flores

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Gregorio de Laferrere y José Martí

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Murals That Defy Gravity by Cinta Vidal

Some epic creativity is hard at work in the murals of Cinta Vidal, a Catalan artist that is making a name for herself throughout the art world.

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Day of Solidarity with the People of Syria

Text: Day of solidarity with the people of Syria, March 8

OSPAAAL poster

Circa 1975

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Bordalo II

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Que ganaaas

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Anatoly Belsky The poster for 'The Communard's Pipe,' directed by Konstantin Mardzhanov, 1929 Museum of Modern Art, New York / The Lauder Foundation, Leonard and Evelyn Lauder Fund / The Jewish Museum

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Que ganaaas

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source

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A Soviet soldier smashes a portrait of Adolf Hitler in the liberated city of Gatchina, Leningrad, 1944 - photographer unknown

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Under apartheid, publishing radical books was an act of resistance. Ravan Press, (founded in 1972 by Peter Randall and others) amplified banned voices, Black Consciousness writers, and critical texts that commercial publishers wouldn’t touch.

Ravan published the first novels by authors like J.M. Coetzee and Miriam Tlali, often risking raids and censorship to do so. Its work was one part of a broader liberation struggle across Southern Africa, building political awareness from the grassroots up.

See more primary sources in the Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa collection on JSTOR, with an emphasis on materials from Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.

Image: Books for Workers from Ravan Press. January 1, 1984. Digital Innovation South Africa.

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KONG

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Keith Haring painting a mural at Grady Hospital’s pediatric emergency room in Atlanta, 1988.

Photos by Tseng Kwong Chi