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Peace, Politics and PostZionism: Contemporary Left-Wing Graphic Design in Israel Bareket Kezwer Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Arts in the History of the Decorative Arts and Design MA Program in the History of the Decorative Arts and Design Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution; and Parsons The New School for Design 2011 ©2011 Bareket Kezwer All Rights Reserved Table of contents Introduction 1 Chapter One: The Birth of a Nation: Visual Language and the Construction of the Zionist Narrative and Israeli Identity 5 Chapter Two: Breaking Out of the Narrative: the Birth of PostZionist Design 14 Chapter Three: Varied Voices: Expanding the Practice 53 Concluding Remarks 110 Bibliography 112 Appendix A: Timeline 115 i Acknowledgements This project would not be possible without the help of Jen Cohlman, Iris Dishon, Ronen Eidelman, David Grossman, Lahav Halevy, Ofer Kahana, Ruben Kohn, Jonathan Lax, Yossi Lemel, Ellen Lupton, Paula Markus, Ilan Molcho, Guy Saggee, Amitai Sandy, Adi Stern, Adlai Stock, David Tartakover, Alice Twemlow, Ziv Tzapati, Yarom Vardimon, Mushon Zer-Aviv, and Gil Zohar. Thank you תודה רבה ii 1 Introduction ―Israel is a country still searching for its principles and its identity.‖1 Pundits have quipped that Israel is a country with more history than geography. That surfeit could equally apply to the Israeli political system, which has been called a democracy on steroids. The number of political opinions, are jokingly said to outnumber the population. Israelis span a spectrum from the far left to the rabid right, and are rarely shy about making their opinions known.
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