The poster tradition dates back hundreds of years and serves as an equalizer in modern-day German elections. But some of today's messaging has been provocative to the point of causing offense.

Ralph Eubanks, director of publishing for the Library of Congress, talks about the new book, "Presidential Campaign Posters," and what has and hasn't changed about campaigning throughout the years.

And posters designed by respected artists such as Ben Shahn’s 1968 Eugene McCarthy Peace poster and James Montgomery Flagg’s Uncle Sam in “I Want You F.D.R” in 1944. Advertisement calendar ...

The poster tradition dates back hundreds of years and serves as an equalizer in modern-day German elections. But some of today's messaging has been provocative to the point of causing offense.

The next great outpouring of campaign art didn’t come until some 40 years later, with the nomination of Barack Obama. “It is possible…that the great American political poster, like so much ...

In this charged election season, we should all show that we give a damn. In a special project for W's 10th anniversary Art Issue, 15 artists throw down the gauntlet and imagine the campaign ...

The poster tradition dates back hundreds of years and serves as an equalizer in modern-day German elections. But some of today's messaging has been provocative to the point of causing offense.

In German Election, Campaign Posters Are More Important Than TV Ads. By Soraya ... September 23, 2017. In the eastern German city of Sassnitz, campaign posters promote (from top) a Marxist ...