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Evil Doesn't Live Here: Posters of the Bosnian War | 
 enlarge | Author: Sarhandi And Boboc
Creator: David Rohde
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1370665
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 194
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 10 x 8 x 0.7
ISBN: 1568982682
Dewey Decimal Number: 949.7103
EAN: 9781568982687
ASIN: 1568982682
Publication Date: May 2001
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Product Description
For most Americans and Europeans, the Bosnian War was played out in the brief, flickering images of television news. But another set of images, more permanent and more profound, played an active role in this war, molding public sentiment and calling attention to the plight of the Bosnian people. For three hellish years, Bosnians plastered the walls of their towns with messages of anger, frustration, desperation, resistance, and hope. These extraordinary images, the focus of this book, are juxtaposed with the hateful, divisive works of propaganda that served the most vicious practitioners of "ethnic cleansing." Evil Doesn't Live Here presents this visual battle to the rest of the world for the first time. Former Bosnian aid workers Daoud Sarhandi and Alina Boboc have gathered over 180 of the most dramatic wartime posters, largely created by Bosnian artists and graphic designers at the height of the war. Fascinating on both political and artistic levels, they provide a harrowing account of the war and put a human face on this seemingly incomprehensible conflict. David Rohde, author of the acclaimed Endgame: The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica and winner of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Bosnian War, introduces this vivid and unforgettable collection, which will appeal as much to those interested in current affairs as designers and artists. A portion of the proceeds from this book will be donated to victims of the Bosnian War.
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Excellent Pictorial June 7, 2005
N. P. Stathoulopoulos (Brooklyn, NY)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is still the only book of its kind on the Bosnian War, a pictorial study of the propaganda posters used by all sides.
I agree with the above summary on the text, however. It doesn't do much for the book, and is thankfully spare. The intro is not very useful at all, but the pictures often speak for themselves needing only a few sentences after the basic details (year, etc). Posters range from ad-mocking pleas by artists and civilians while some is pure government PR, some of the cruder pictures evoking earlier 20th century wars. Some are printed in English to reach foreign powers while some are in Roman or Cyrillic to appeal to the homeland. Many are extremely creative and clever, using universal logos and symbols. Subjects for these single-frame calls-to-arm include the slaughter of a people and a plea for attention, the fear of Islam in Europe, the fear of a Croatian-Nazi state, the uselessness of the UN, etc, etc. There's a good cross-section of material as well and brief notes about the differents propaganda machines in each country.
Chilling to look at the posters and think about the carnage done in their name; the more aggression ones are even darker years later.
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