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Steven A. Seidman
I have been interested in political posters since I was quite young, after I received an Eisenhower poster, when he paraded near my apartment building in New York City in 1956. When I was a college student, I obtained the McCarthy 1968 "Peace" poster, signed by the artist, Ben Shahn, and I started to collect election posters. Several years later, I visited Chile during the 1970 election campaign, which culminated in Salvador Allende gaining power, and grew excited about how posters promoted candidates, parties, and causes in other countries.
I soon became interested in how posters were used in campaigns, while I was a history major with a minor in political science at the University of Wisconsin. I later studied advertising, mass communications, art and graphic design, and technological change at both the University of Pennsylvania and Indiana University, at which I was a graduate student in American civilization and instructional systems technology.
The culmination of my personal and academic interests was my book, with my intention to create a work that was no less than a multifaceted political history of the world in the last two centuries, with a focus on political communications during this period.
I soon became interested in how posters were used in campaigns, while I was a history major with a minor in political science at the University of Wisconsin. I later studied advertising, mass communications, art and graphic design, and technological change at both the University of Pennsylvania and Indiana University, at which I was a graduate student in American civilization and instructional systems technology.
The culmination of my personal and academic interests was my book, with my intention to create a work that was no less than a multifaceted political history of the world in the last two centuries, with a focus on political communications during this period.
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