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Joe Dunman

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Our media writes as if it is still the Gilded Age and the New Deal never happened.

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Jerome Nicolas's avatar Jerome Nicolas @jeromenicolas.bsky.social
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I made a similar point in my book, only I cited the 1920s. There was a reset aesthetic that impacted fashion and graphic design. From the 1990s to the aughts, art directors were ironically using avant-garde Soviet kitsch and lifting the style of WPA posters to crow that capitalism had won.

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