Masters at visual propaganda, the Bolsheviks produced thousands of vivid and compelling posters after they seized power in October 1917. Intended for a semi-lit

The fourteen essays that comprise this volume concentrate on festival iconography, the visual and written languages, including ephemeral and permanent structure

In Latin America, where even today writing has remained a restricted form of expression, the task of generating consent and imposing the emergent nation-state a

Despite its enormous success and its evident importance in the context of sixteenth-century French literature, few major studies have been written about the Fre

This volume examines the ways that sovereign rulers have employed well-defined symbols, attributes, and stereotypes to convey their power to their subjects and