Margot McMahon

RESIST! A Visual History of Protest

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Like the silk map slipped from parachutist Franklin McMahon's sleeve offering escape from the German P.O.W. camp, daughter and author Margot, describes the astonishing world then flung upon him from 1945-2012. Her evocative words startle the reader to life, as we follow Franklin and Irene parents to a family of nine, immersed in a lifetime of struggle for social justice! They provoke us to confront truth via vivid pencil drawings, historic voice, faith and film in order to Resist and Answer: What have you done today for justice? --Kathleen Osberger, L.C.S.W., Chicago community organizer, activist and therapist ¿¿The true story of the later years of Franklin McMahon, artist-reporter for many powerful moments in U.S. History, from the Emmett Till Trial to the Apollo missions. McMahon was a WWII Army Air Corps veteran and former prisoner of war in Germany who made it back home to Chicago to his sweetheart Irene. McMahon became an award-winning presidential artist, among numerous additional honors. This book is the final in a series by Franklin's daughter, Margot McMahon. This book is part of the RESIST! exhibitions in museums nationwide.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Aquarius Press LLC
• Seitenzahl: 50
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 216mm x 4mm
• Gewicht: 176g
• ISBN-13: 9780984621293
• ISBN-10: 0984621296
• Artikelnr.: 67067884

Autorenporträt

A lifelong environmentalist, internationally-awarded sculptor, Margot McMahon sculpts writes, and paints the interconnectivity of forms of nature. Humans, plants, and animals symbolize lifeforms through her interpretations. The Smithsonian and the Museum of Contemporary Art collected her sculptures. Aquarius Press published If Trees Could Talk, a National Book Award recipient, Mac and Irene: A WWII Saga, and Airdrie, a YA book. Margot recently published her fourth book with Aquarius Press for release at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in December 2022: RESIST! A Visual History of Protest. Her three children live on three coasts, one is nearby. She and her husband live in Oak Park, Illinois.