The Young Person’s Illustrated Guide to American Fascism

Thursday, January 30, at 2 PM on KPFK (new day and time) on Bibliocracy: My guest is the art historian Stephen F. Eisenman, collaborator with legendary artist Sue Coe on the new collection The Young Person’s Illustrated Guide to American Fascism, out now from O/R Books. It’s a gallery of Coe’s arts exploring, documenting, challenging militarism, animal cruelty, victimization of displaced persons and more with analysis and interpretation by Eisenman via an introduction and short essays. Sue Coe is one of the world’s most acclaimed political artists, with prints, drawings, and paintings found in major art museums and reproduced in multiple books. Stephen F. Eisenman is Professor Emeritus of Art History at Northwestern University and author of a dozen books including Nineteenth Century Art: A Critical History, Gauguin’s Skirt, The Abu Ghraib Effect, and The Cry of Nature: Art and the Making of Animal Rights. A columnist for Counterpunch, he is a cofounder of the environmental justice nonprofit Anthropocene Alliance. https://www.counterpunch.org/author/stephen-f-eisenman/

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