Of, By, and For the Left

James Gardner

You will probably have missed “Committed to Print,” a small exhibition about social and political themes in recent American printed art, which lately left the Museum of Modern Art in New York and is now going nowhere. In the remote possibility that you are sorry not to have seen it, I shall try to console you. To be fair I must say that, as exhibitions go, it was not badly done. The curator, Deborah Wye, clearly knows her subject, and went to considerable lengths to ferret out of their obscure hiding places over 150 posters, booklets, fliers, and advertisements from 1960 to the present. In her catalogue, which provides an informative introduction and sensible commentary on each of the exhibits, she has managed to appear scrupulously non-partisan, and this, under the circumstances, is a miracle.

JG

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James Gardner

You will probably have missed “Committed to Print,” a small exhibition about social and political themes in recent American printed art, which lately left the Museum of Modern Art in New York and is now going nowhere. In the remote possibility that you are sorry not to have seen it, I shall try to console you. To be fair I must say that, as exhibitions go, it was not badly done. The curator, Deborah Wye, clearly knows her subject, and went to considerable lengths to ferret out of their obscure hiding places over 150 posters, booklets, fliers, and advertisements from 1960 to the present. In her catalogue, which provides an informative introduction and sensible commentary on each of the exhibits, she has managed to appear scrupulously non-partisan, and this, under the circumstances, is a miracle.