In Hope: A Collection of Obama Posters and Prints, Kansas City Art Institute professor Hal Elliott Wert unveils one of the largest Barack Obama campaign poster collections in existence. This is a collection to be treasured by everyone who was inspired and mobilized by the Obama campaign. Among the unique features of this landmark book: · More than 170 posters from Hal Wert's personal collection · A Catalog of Posters and Prints with background information on each featured piece · The social and political context of the Obama poster movement and its place in the history of American presidential campaign art · Foreword by Ray Noland, the street artist credited with starting the nationwide guerrilla poster movement in support of Obama · The interior of the dust jacket folds out into a full-color reproduction of artist David Choe's Hope poster

A portion of this book's proceeds fund the National Art Education Association.