Station 4 Presents the Art of Emory Douglas
February 20, 2009 | Levent OZLER
Station 4 is presenting three historic Emory Douglas propaganda art pieces originally published in the Black Panther newspaper in 1970 and 1971.
The limited edition silk screened images are the first of a twelve print collectors series.
In 1967 Emory Douglas became an active member of the Black Panther Party based in San Francisco and quickly became responsible for the design of the Black Panther's official paper of the party.
"Many of the images may surprise viewers coming to them for the first time.
These images, some nearly forty years old, are still as powerful as when Emory Douglas first created them.
They are serious and defiant pictures, and they were meant to change the world.
Douglas was the Revolutionary Artist of the Black Panther Party and then became its Minister of Culture, part of the national leadership.
Douglas created the overall design of the Black Panther, the party's weekly newspaper, and oversaw its layout and production until the party's discontinuance in the early 1980s.
During this era Douglas made countless artworks, illustrations, and cartoons, which were reproduced in the paper and distributed as prints, posters, cards and even sculptures."
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