Overview of the Collection |
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| Creator: | Young, Art, 1866-1943. |
| Title: | "How to Cure World Un-rest" Postcards |
| Inclusive Dates: | undated (between 1919 and 1921) |
| Quantity: | 1 folder (SC) |
| Abstract: | Collection of postcards with radical-sentiment cartoons |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: |
Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 http://scrc.syr.edu |
Art Young (1866-1943) was born in Monroe, Wisconsin and had his first illustrations published at the age of seventeen. He studied at the Academy of Design in Chicago while working as an illustrator of news stories for the Chicago Evening Mail, but in 1895 he moved to New York where he studied at the Art Students League and began to move towards a more radical political viewpoint. By 1902 Young's work was so highly valued that newspapers and magazines were willing to accept his drawings attacking inequality and supporting causes he believed in such as women's rights. In 1910 Young went to work for the Socialist magazine The Masses, where he was free to fully express his radical views. Despite a libel charge in 1913 and The Masses' loss of their mailing privileges in 1917 for their outspoken opposition to World War I, Young continued to draw "inflammatory" cartoons for the magazine until it ceased publication in 1918. He went on to do cartoons for The Liberator and Good Morning, both of which he had helped establish, as well as for the Saturday Evening Post, the Nation, New Masses and the New Leader. He published his autobiography, Art Young: His Life and Times, in 1939.
"I think we have the true religion. If only the crusade would take on more converts. But faith, like the faith they talk about in the churches, is ours and the goal is not unlike theirs, in that we want the same objectives but want it here on earth and not in the sky when we die." [Art Young, in an interview with Gil Wilson, 1940]
The "How to Cure World Un-rest" Postcards is a set of twelve postcards drawn by political cartoonist Art Young and issued by the Good Morning Co., publishers of the radical journal Good Morning. The postcards depict various fictional figures accompanied by satirical text, such as Reverend A. Jawbunk, who preached "an eloquent sermon yesterday on 'Social Unrest, the Peril of the Twentieth Century';" Karl Muddlechump, who "says that the way to cure the Bolshevistic unrest the world over is to spread the news at least every six weeks that the Russian Soviet Government has fallen;" and Henry Sniff Hound, who proposes that the "intellectual, moral, and material force of the world...be exerted against the spreading of...communist doctrines."
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Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
"How to Cure World Un-rest" Postcards,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Library
Purchased, 2007.
Created by: MRC
Date: 13 Jun 2007
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