TIME has replaced the logo on its cover for the first time. The artwork is by Shepard Fairey.
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Published October 30, 2020
“VOTE” Shepard Fairey Cover for TIME
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Published January 27, 2017
1984
The dystopia described in George Orwell’s nearly 70-year-old novel “1984” suddenly feels all too familiar. A world in which Big Brother (or maybe the National Security Agency) is always listening in, and high-tech devices can eavesdrop in people’s homes. (Hey, Alexa, what’s up?) A world of endless war, where fear and hate are drummed up against foreigners, and movies show boatloads of refugees dying at sea. A world in which the government insists that reality is not “something objective, external, existing in its own right” — but rather, “whatever the Party holds to be truth is truth.”
“1984” shot to No. 1 on Amazon’s best-seller list this week, after Kellyanne Conway, an adviser to President Trump, described demonstrable falsehoods told by the White House press secretary Sean Spicer — regarding the size of inaugural crowds — as “alternative facts.” It was a phrase chillingly reminiscent, for many readers, of the Ministry of Truth’s efforts in “1984” at “reality control.” To Big Brother and the Party, Orwell wrote, “the very existence of external reality was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense.” Regardless of the facts, “Big Brother is omnipotent” and “the Party is infallible.”
Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
As Nineteen Eighty-Four is suddenly more relevant than ever, I thought I would share a few of the recent covers for Orwell’s classic novel…
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Published June 10, 2014
Shepard Fairey: Obey This Film
Love it or hate it, Shepard Fairey’s bold graphic style with its limited colour-palette and appropriated pop culture imagery, is immediately recognizable and much-imitated.
In this interesting short film by Brett Novak, the Los Angeles-based artist talks openly about his work, influences, and, yes, the Obama ‘Hope’ poster:
An exhibition of new work by Fairey is currently on display — alongside prints by the artist Jasper Johns — at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art in the Fairey’s home town of Charleston, South Carolina.
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