[ecrea] The Poster new issue 2.1

Intellect is delighted to announce the publication of /The Poster /issue 
2.1

This issue discusses how visual rhetoric is employed by elite 
institutions in an attempt to exert control, but also demonstrates that 
it can be harnessed for a politics of resistance. Exposing the unsavoury 
nature of 'imperatives in the cultural environment', Barnabas Wetton 
explores the patriarchal values underlying slogans such as 'Drink 
Coca-Cola'. Furthermore, Anna Feigenbaum describes how the contemporary 
security industry consciously promotes fear by means of its advertising 
in order to sell anti-terrorism products. Highlighting one way in which 
visual art may be used to resist oppression, Bex Lewis examines the 
history of the 'Keep Calm and Carry On' poster, which the Ministry of 
Information intended to post in the event of a Nazi invasion during WWII 
to prevent panic. Lizzie Falvey articulates a narrative of defiance in 
her case study of American populist landscape artist Bob Ross, which 
exposes how participatory culture can challenge elitist notions of 'high 
art'. Exiled Iranian visual commentator Hesam Fetrati showcases his 
bold, satirical work, 'Drawing Dictatorship', on the overwhelming 
political control enforced in his native country.

Journal URL: _http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=181/
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**EDITORIAL * pp. 3-6(4) *Author:* /Downs, Simon/

*The renaissance of 'Keep Calm and Carry On' * pp. 7-23(17) *Author:* 
/Lewis, Bex/

*The imperative in the public sphere * pp. 25-47(23) *Author:* /Wetton, 
Barnabas/

*Hesam Fetrati drawing dictatorship * pp. 49-53(5) *Author:* /Fetrati, 
Hesam/

*Happy accidents: Participatory culture and the public reconstruction of 
Bob Ross * pp. 55-73(19) *Author:* /Falvey, L. D./

*Security for sale! The visual rhetoric of marketing counter-terrorism 
technologies * pp. 75-92(18) *Author:* /Feigenbaum, Anna/

*REVIEW * pp. 93-94(2) *Author:* /Downs, Simon/


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Call for papers
*/The Poster/ welcomes both theoretical and practice-based contributions 
to its refereed content that explore the ways in which visual devices 
are used to sway, persuade, provoke, unite and divide us, but also 
recognises that many with an active interest and expertise in the area 
are from outside the academic sphere: to this end we invite those who 
contribute vitality to the visual rhetorical landscape to send in their 
work as non-refereed submissions. Please visit our call for papers page 
for more information: 
_http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=181/view,page=2/
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*Editors
*Simon Downs
Loughborough University
(s.t.downs /at/ lboro.ac.uk)

Malcolm Barnard, Loughborough University
Mel Jordan, Loughborough University;
Jaime Gomez, Universidad de Guadalajara
Leong Chan, University of New South Wales
Helena Barbosa, University of Aveiro
Robert Harland, Loughborough University

/The Poster/: volume 3, 2012 | 2 issues per year | Published by Intellect

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