US propaganda poster with a swastika shattered by a symbolic face promoting freedom of speech in Central America
- Artwork Title
- Libertad de Palabra
- Alternate Title
- Freedom of Speech
- Series Title
- Cuatro Libertades
- Date
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publication/distribution:
1942
- Geography
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issue:
Washington (D.C.)
- Language
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Spanish
- Classification
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Posters
- Category
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War propaganda
- Object Type
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Posters, American (lcsh)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Carlos Zepeda
Libertad de Palabra (Freedom of Speech) is an American propaganda poster produced during World War II for distribution in Central America. Designed by Alexey Brodovitch, this poster features a big black swastika broken into jagged pieces by a symbolic image of Free Speech, a face with an open mouth. It is part of a series of five posters created to promote President Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms. In his January 1941 State of the Union address, FDR proposed four fundamental freedoms that people everywhere in the world should enjoy: Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear. The Spanish language posters were published by the Office of Inter-American Affairs in 1942 to gain support for the Allies in Central America. Herbert Bayer, Alexey Brodovitch, Edward McKnight Kauffer, and John Atherton were commissioned to design the posters by Nelson Rockefeller, Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. Brodovitch had fled Bolshevik rule in Russia for Paris in 1920, then immigrated to the United States in 1930, eventually working as art director of Harper’s Bazaar for nearly 25 years.
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Also in Carlos Zepeda collection
The collection consists of two posters relating to the propaganda efforts of the United States government in Central America during World War II.
Date: 1942
Typographic US propaganda poster promoting FDR’s Four Freedoms in Central America
Object
Cuatro Libertades (Four Freedoms) is an American propaganda poster produced during World War II for distribution in Central America. It is part of a series of five posters created to promote President Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms. In his January 1941 State of the Union address, FDR proposed four fundamental freedoms that people everywhere in the world should enjoy: Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear. The Spanish language posters were published by the Office of Inter-American Affairs in 1942 to gain support for the Allies in Central America. Herbert Bayer, Alexey Brodovitch, Edward McKnight Kauffer, and John Atherton were commissioned to design the posters by Nelson Rockefeller, Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. This colorful typographic poster was designed by Herbert Bayer. Bayer was a Bauhaus trained graphic designer who fled Germany for the US after his works were displayed in the 1937 Nazi exhibition, Degenerate Art.
