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EDWARD MCKNIGHT KAUFFER (1890-1954) LIBERDADE POLITICA. 1942. 20 1/4x14 1/4 inches. Condition B+: minor tears in margins; crease in image. In 1942, the Office of Inter-American Affairs, headed by Nelson A. Rockefeller, commissioned some of the most pre-eminent modern American designers of the day to create posters for distribution in Latin America (the other artists were Alexey Brodovitch, John Atherton and Herbert Bayer). Atypically progressive artistically, these posters, which appeared early on in America's involvement in the war, were intended to sway Latin American opinion against the Axis powers and to increase the solidarity of the Western hemisphere. Each of the posters in this series highlighted one or more of Theodore Roosevelt's Four Freedoms, as stated to the United States Congress in January, 1941: Freedom from Fear, Freedom From Want, Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Religion. Here Kauffer takes on a surrealist, post cubist symbolic style. Hoffnung und Widerstand 314.
