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Everyone recognizes it. Wherever it's seen -- from lapel pins to bumper
stickers to banners -- this familiar circle with its upside-down V
makes an immediate anti-war, pro-harmony statement. Peace: 50 Years of Protest highlights the fascinating and eventful history of this well-known symbol. This riveting retrospective features . . .
- The story of its roots -- how British conscientious objector
Gerald Holtom designed the symbol as a logo for the 1958 Easter protest
march by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND)
- Its arrival in North America -- how several Americans attended
that very first anti-nuclear march in Britain and subsequently brought
he new logo back to the United States as an anti-bomb, anti-war symbol
- Pivotal photographic moments of historic protest -- when the
peace symbol became a rallying cry for change, from Vietnam to Central
America, from Selma to Budapest
- The sign's prominent use in fashion use in fashion, pop art, film, and marketing
Using a combination of research and personal recall, author Barry Miles
recounts the evolution of this symbol from the 1958-1960 Ban the Bomb
mass marches right up to the present day.
pub date: 2008-03-13 | hardcover | 9780762108930 |
