The novel “White Collar” by Giacomo Patri (1940) gives an insight how the relationship between ‘brain and hand’ workers during crisis where regarded from a radical standpoint.

“White Collar is a novel in linocuts by Giacomo Patri portraying the injustices of workers during the Depression. There are 128 prints in this unique visualization of the daily life hardships of a middle class family through the 1930s.
Largely undiscovered, because the images of class struggle, unionization, and abortion were controversial for their time; Patri was forced to print and publish White Collar privately in limited numbers. Even now, the copies that survive are few and far between.”

The style of the graphics remind me somewhat of Drooker’s works. Or is it just the technique? Nevertheless, perspective and sharp contrast seem to make a great impression on me.

Via the Visual Resistance collective.

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