MAKE ART NOT WAR Signed Offset Lithograph offset Offset on thick white paper

Offset on thick white paper

printed with multiple layers of foil stamping and sculptured emboss

Open Edition (not numbered)

The Art of Shepard Fairey - 20th Anniversary Edition expands upon the previous version of this book and adds 100 new pages of illustrations and text to showcase Fairey's entire body of work

MAKE ART NOT WAR Signed Offset Lithograph offset Offset on thick white paperThis print, created during the Iraq war, is an alternative phrase inspired by popular 1960s anti war mantra, Make love, not war. In this case, Fairey asserts the need for creative rather than destructive acts. The Art Nouveau style of the image is an additional reference to the influence of Art Nouveau on hippie and psychedelic art of the 60s, including many anti Vietnam war posters. Encased within a floral garland, the female figure appears more self