"Republican Contract on America”

A quote by Nazi Hermann Göring is used to highlight the anti-intellectual, anti-cultural stance of the Republican-controlled 104th U.S. Congress. The poster is a response to Newt Gingrich’s much-ballyhooed “Contract With America.”

Ralph Reed (formerly of the Christian Coalition) controls the chamber; Newt Gingrich is the hammer; Bob Packwood—at the time under investigation for sexual misconduct—is the grip; Jesse Helms is the trigger. There is no sight.

COLLECTIONS

• Center for the Study of Political Graphics (CSPG), Los Angeles
• Denver Art Museum, AIGA Design Archives
• Deutsche Plakat Museum, Museum Folkwang, Essen
• Jenny Holzer, Hoosick, New York
• Letterform Archive, San Francisco
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Mark Treib Collection
• Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)

EXHIBITIONS

• “BlackDogma: Selections from the Work of Mark Fox in the Permanent Collection of Architecture + Design” (1999)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

• “24 Reasons to Leave L.A.” (1998)
Doyle/Logan Gallery, Los Angeles

• “Communication Graphics 16” (1995)
American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), New York

PUBLICATIONS

• “The Design of Dissent, Expanded Edition” by Milton Glaser and Mirko Ilić, published by Rockport Publishers (2017)

• “The Design of Dissent” by Milton Glaser and Mirko Ilić, published by Rockport Publishers (2005)

• “BlackDog: Making His Marks” by Ken Coupland, published in Graphis, No. 328, Vol. 56. (7/8.2000)

• “Mixing Messages: Graphic Design in Contemporary Culture” by Ellen Lupton, published by Princeton Architectural Press (1996)

• “Typography 17: The Annual of the Type Directors Club” published by Watson-Guptill Publications (1996)

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EDITION: Open (unsigned)

DIMENSIONS: 24 x 24 inches
MEDIA: Screen printed in black and red enamel inks on chipboard

PRINTING: Mick Amaral at Acme Screen Printing / Novato
DESIGN: © 1995 Mark Fox, BlackDog / SF