PART 4 - THE ACTIVIST

REACT, REAGISSEZ, REAGIEREN, REACCIONE, REACCIONE, REAGISCA, REAJA, REACT

BE CREATIVE

• Macarenses wants you to go out and do something creative – make your own 'zine, build an art installation in your garden, start painting, write a poem, play an impromptu gig. It doesn’t matter what you do, just be sure to do it your own way.

• Everyone has got something to say. On the margins of mainstream culture, away from the national galleries and the blandness of modern cities – there are lots of people being creative.

• So if you have got something to say get out there are do it! Creativity is about expressing yourself, giving yourself a voice.

• Most of all, let your mind be creative by forgetting all that you have been told and learnt. Imagine not how things are, but how you want them to be - a new world IS possible if you want it enough.

AND

• Look at the history of graphic agitation and be inspired.

• Get directly involved in some of the current protest groups and campaigns shown below.

• Read a bibliography of all the books that interest and influence me and consult them yourselves.

• Read the biographies of the influential artists

INDEX

ARTS WEB LINKS

Art Activism & Agit-Prop Now / General Arts / Artists / Zines / Photomontage-Collage / Illustration-Caricature / Military-Political Propaganda Historical / Art Medals / Woodcuts / Outsider Art / Archives/Libraries Digital Collections

PROTEST WEB LINKS

Monarchy / Religion / Peace Groups-Anti-Nuclear-Anti-Arms Trade / Environmental / Government-Corporate Watching / Centres (for information and organisation) / Website media / Magazines-Newspapers (and on-line versions) / Bookshops-Publishers / Political Parties / Activist Networks / Anarchist Organisation / Thinking Hard / Anti-Fascist / Human Rights-Civil Liberties / Archives-Libraries / Housing / Trade Development / Culture / Misc.

BOOK BIBLIOGRAPHY

Graphic Agitation (general) / Graphic Agitation (specific books) / Photomontage-Collage / Photography / Illustration / Illustration (classics) / Caricature / Military Propaganda / German Expressionism / Avant-Garde Magazines-Books / Graphic Design / Modern Art (general) / Artists (general A-Z) / Germany Modern (general) / Russia Modern (general) / Italy Modern (general) / Arts & Crafts / Stage Design / Posters / Primitive Arts / Sculpture / Architecture / Art Medals / Fiction / Written Agitation / Devils & Monsters / Alchemy / Medical Illustration  / Outsider Art / Archives/Libraries/Museums

ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

Artist Biographies (under construction)

Art Activism & Agit-Prop Now

Sue Coe

http://www.graphicwitness.org/coe/enter.htm

Eric Drooker

http://www.drooker.com/

Agraphia Press/Clifford Harper

(maintaining tradition of radical and didactic black and white drawing)

http://www.agraphia.uk.com/home.html

Banksy

(political graffiti at its best)

www.banksy.co.uk

Movement of the Imagination

(anti-capitalist artists on the streets)

http://www.movementoftheimagination.org/

Protest Graphics

(print and go!)

http://www.protestgraphics.org/

The Propaganda Remix Project

(updated American WWII posters for today)

http://homepage.mac.com/leperous/PhotoAlbum1.html

Another Poster For Peace

(print and go posters)

http://www.anotherposterforpeace.org/

Peace Posters

(print and go posters)

http://www.peaceposters.org/

Anti-War US

(print and go posters)

http://www.anti-war.us/mission/index.php

Miniature Gigantic (Campaign on Iraq Poster Exhibition)

http://war.miniaturegigantic.com/

Drawing Resistance: a travelling political art show

http://www.drawingresistance.org/

The Vacuum Cleaner

(cleaning up after the mess of capitalism, check out the prayers to consumption [http://www.consume.org.uk])

http://www.thevacuumcleaner.co.uk/menu.html

The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination

(network of socially engaged artists and activists whose work falls in between resistance and creativity, culture and politics, art and life)

http://www.labofii.net/home/

Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army (CIRCA)

(what better than to ridicule the systems of authority)

www.clownarmy.org

My Dad's Strip Club

(more corporate mocking pranks)

http://www.mydadsstripclub.com/

Fanclub

(more corporate mocking pranks)

http://www.fanclubbers.org/

Space Hijackers

(taking back space from capitalism)

http://www.spacehijackers.co.uk/

N.A.T.O. (Northern Arts Tactical Offensive)

(good stuff. I especially like project CRAP (Capitalism Represents Acceptable Policy) and their Makes Poverty Worse campaign)

http://www.beyondtv.org/nato/

Buy Nothing Day

(Adbusters campaign and fellow jammers)

http://buynothingday.co.uk/

Website of published book (2004) 'Peace-Signs, The Anti-War Movement Illustrated'

(includes lists of artists included with their websites and other links. Lots of posters to download and use)

http://www.theantiwarposter.com/us.html

Artist Against The War

(set up when war on terror was launched)

http://www.artistsagainstthewar.org.uk/index.html

Art Not Oil: A True Portrait of an Oil Company

http://www.artnotoil.org.uk/

Centre for the Study of Political Graphics

(American posters/virtual exhibitions)

http://www.politicalgraphics.org/home.html

Provisions Library: Resource Centre For Activism And Arts)

(Washington DC centre that holds exhibitions etc.)

http://microsites.provisionslibrary.org

Political Cartoons - A Free Resource

http://www.political-cartoons.co.uk/

UHC Collective

(professional agit-propers, clients include Big Issue)

http://www.uhc-collective.org.uk/

Aberdeen Posters Collective

http://www.aberdeen-posters.tk/

Stuckism movement

(check out their manifestos and pranks)

http://www.stuckism.com/index.html

Anti-War medals exhibition

http://www.velvetdavinci.com/show.php?sid=50

General Arts

Art History Resources On The Web

(huge links site)

http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html
 

Sharmanka

(Russian Kinetic Gallery/Theatre in Glasgow)

http://www.sharmanka.com/

Alasdair Gray

(Author of Lanark etc. Book designs are excellent)

http://www.alasdairgray.co.uk/

George Orwell site

(whole texts of books plus much more, images, articles, study guides, links etc.)

http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/

Orwell site with images of the front covers of various editions.

http://orwell.ru/library/novels/1984/gallery/

Latin American Graphic Art

(mainly 20th century and woodcuts)

http://grabados.org/

Italian Futurist Manifestos

(has copies of their manifestos and many links to other sites)

http://www.unknown.nu/futurism/

Futurism site

http://www.futurism.org.uk/

Site about the visual telling of stories. Has a bewildering amount and variation of images.

http://www.fulltable.com/vts/index2.htm

The Art of Poster, Polish Posters

(check out amazing artwork of Franciszek Starowieyski. And other artists Roman Cieslewicz, Jerzy Czerniawski, Stasys Eidrigevicius, Mieczyslaw Gorowski, Wiktor Sadowski and Wieslaw Walkuski.)

http://www.theartofposter.com/main.htm

Polish Poster Gallery

http://www.poster.com.pl/index.htm

Kunsthandel Jorg Maab (german expressionist gallery)

(gallery site but with good biographies and some images)

http://www.germanexpressionism.com/jorg.html

Symbolist Art

(includes Alberto Martini illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe (7))

http://www.symbolistart.net/

Medieval Macabre images

(223 images including all of Hans Holbein 'Dance of Death')

http://www.godecookery.com/macabre/macabre.htm

Online edition of 'Dictionnaire Infernal by J.A.S. Collin de Plancy, illustrator: M. L. Breton, E Plon, 1863 edition'

(online edition has 64 small images of the original 69 book illustrations)

http://www.deliriumsrealm.com/delirium/demon_deplancy.asp

Art For A Change

(online exhibitions of german expressionism, spanish civil war posters, paris 1968 and punk rock flyers)

http://www.art-for-a-change.com/content/site.htm

The Alchemy Web Site

(hundreds of images)

http://www.levity.com/alchemy/index.html

Dante Divine Comedy site (gallery of 368 selected images with Botticelli, Dore, Dali and Alessandro Vellutello)

http://www.divinecomedy.org/divine_comedy.php3?gallery?contents

Online book 'The Grotesque' (Philip Thomson, The Critical Idiom Series, Methuen, London, 1972)

(Analysis of grotesque tradition in literature)

http://davidlavery.net/Grotesque/Major_Artists_Theorists/theorists/thomson/thomson.html

Themerson Archive

(sites of and about Stefan and Franciszka Themerson and their publishing company 'Gaberbocchus Press')

http://www.themersonarchive.com/

http://www.gaberbocchus.nl/index.html

http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/wid/exhibits/gaberbocchus-press/index.html

Taschen publishers

http://www.taschen.com/

Dover publishers

http://store.doverpublications.com/

Encyclopaedia of British Neo-Romanticism

http://www.neo-romantic.org.uk/

Interesting blog about books/illustrations

http://www.spamula.net/blog/

Interesting blogs from Aeron Alfrey (his own diabolical artwork and great links to classic and contemporary grotesque artists)

http://monsterbrains.blogspot.com/

http://www.skeletoncave.blogspot.com/

http://fantasticanimation.blogspot.com/

http://www.ligotti.net/gallery/alfrey.html

Interesting blog about books/illustrations

http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/

Wikipedia entry on Cabinet of Curiosities/Wunderkammern

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_of_curiosities

History of tarot and playing card images

http://trionfi.com/0/a/

Surrealist Centre

(has research articles)

http://www.surrealismcentre.ac.uk/

Artists

Francis Bacon site

(excellent site with many pictures and more)

http://www.francis-bacon.cx/

Exhibition on the Gehenna Press and Leonard Baskin

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/baskin/

Zdzislaw Beksinski (polish fantasy artist)

http://www.gnosis.art.pl/iluminatornia/sztuka_o_inspiracji/zdzislaw_beksinski/zdzislaw_beksinski.htm

http://www.dmochowskigallery.net/index.html

Dali online

(Includes all 100 illustrations to 'Divine Comedy', all 105 illustrations from the 5 volumes of 'Biblia Sacra' / also illustrations to 'Decameron' and 'Tristan and Iseult').

http://www.dalionline.com/

Gustave Dore site

(extensive images of his work)

http://dore.artpassions.net/

Ernst Fuchs Centre

(check out the fantastic art etchings)

http://www.ernstfuchs-zentrum.com/starteng6.html

HR Giger

http://www.hrgiger.com/

National Library of Spain virtual exhibition of Goya (including Los Desastres de la Guerra, Los Disparates & Los Caprichos)

http://www.bne.es/Goya/hall_estampas.html

John Maitland Graves

http://www.tradenet.net/jmgraves/jmg_htlms/a_hm_print.html

Alfred Kubin site with 86 images

http://www.gnosis.art.pl/iluminatornia/sztuka_o_inspiracji/alfred_kubin/alfred_kubin.htm

El Lissitzky exhibition: Monuments of the Future

http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/digitized_collections/lissitzky/

Roberto Matta

(over 1000 images by the Chilean artist)

http://www.matta-art.com/

Jose Guadalupe Posada virtual library (University of New Mexico)

(skeleton-tastic)

http://elibrary.unm.edu/posada/

Paul Rumsey

(brilliant current artist like Alfred Kubin, A Paul Weber, the polish poster artists and other grotesques.)

http://www.angelfire.com/pa5/rumsey/

28 images by A Paul Weber

http://www.mondamo.de/weber_galerie.htm

Zines

Zine Library

(USA site with self published 'zines. Anarchist slant)

http://zinelibrary.net/

The Book of Zines: Readings From The Fringe

(a great resource guide, how and why)

http://www.zinebook.com/

Photomontage/Collage

John Heartfield

(some examples imaged here)

http://www.towson.edu/heartfield/Welcome.html

Hannah Hoch

http://hannahhoch.com/

Collage Art (dedicated to the art of collage)

(massive links lists to collage artists and photomontage artists, old and new. Also has a book list).

http://www.collageart.org/index.html

A general introduction to photomontage

http://www.cutandpaste.info/

International Dada Archive (The University of Iowa Libraries)

(many images from the various journals)

http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/dada/

The International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction

http://collagemuseum.com/

Peter Kennard

http://www.peterkennard.com/

Jonathon Baker

(does Direct Action magazine images)

http://www.jonathonbaker.com/

The artwork of Nicolas Lampert

(check out agit-prop part)

http://www.machineanimalcollages.com/

David Palmer

(check out 1980s political montage)

http://www.pabulumpix.com/

Michael Dickinson

(political photomontage at its best)

http://yabanji.tripod.com/

http://www.stuckism.com/Dickinson/New.html

http://www.elcadillo.com.mx/galerias/michael_dickinson.html

http://www.uplandtrout.co.uk/DickinsonMain.html

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://carnival_of_chaos.tripod.com/

Leon Kuhn

(political photomontage for the digital age)

http://www.leonkuhn.org.uk/

Winston Smith

(surreal photomontage)

http://www.winstonsmith.com/

Gee Vaucher (CRASS images)

(on Southern Records site)

http://www.southern.com/southern/band/CRASS/biog.html

John Yates

http://www.stealworks.com/

Peter Lewis

(surreal photomontage)

http://www.warpart.co.nz/

Site dedicated to Wilfried Satty

http://www.zpub.com/satty/

Cozette De Charmoy

http://www.cozettedecharmoy.com/#

Norman Rubington

(collage series in 1950' and 60's, one book is on-line)

http://www.normanrubington.com/index.html

http://www.evergreenreview.com/102/archive/fuzz.html

Collage blog

http://collageclearinghouse.blogspot.com/

Illustration/Caricature

Graphic Witness

My favourite website of all time!, as it documents years of social commentary through images. An amazing resource with many complete books imaged, biographies of artists, graphic art in wartime, nineteenth century journal illustration and great links. Images from books by Sue Coe, Hugo Gellert, George Grosz, Frans Masereel, the Taller de Grafica Popular workshop and Lynd Ward).

http://www.graphicwitness.org/

L'Assiette au Beurre (French site)

(many images from the influential journal from 1901-1912)

http://www.assietteaubeurre.org/

L'Assiette au Beurre (French site)

(a small selection, c.10 issues digitised)

http://www.assietteaubeurre.com/index.php

Les Amis de Job (French site)

(many images from 19th-20th century journals inc. L'Eclipse, Le Rire, L'Assiette au Beurre, La Baionnette, Le Crapouillot)

http://www.lesamisdejob.com/index.php

Skidmore College syllabus on Revolution & Social Upheaval in France

(2 issues of L'Assiette au Beurre digitised plus a few more individual images. Also Herman-Paul's woodcuts for Les Quatre Saisons de al Kultur)

http://www.skidmore.edu/academics/fll/janzalon/revolution/beurre.html

Simplicissimus (every issue on-line 1896-1944)!

http://www.simplicissimus.com/

Site with virtual exhibitions of Simplicissimus, Le Rire and various artists

(Index) http://www.coconino-world.com/s_classics_v3/mng_classics.php

http://www.coconino-world.com/sites_auteurs/simplicissimus/index.html

http://www.coconino-world.com/sites_auteurs/rire/index.html

Articles and collections of great images by Alois Payer (German site) on anti-clerical caricature/satire by various artists (Hogarth, Goya, G Cruickshank, Grandville, Daumier, Dore & Rops), in magazines (including Kladderadatsch, Fliegende Blatter, Simplicissimus, Jugend & L'Assiette au Beurre), in countries (Switzerland & Russia) and along various themes (including papacy and reformation). Amazing site!

http://www.payer.de/relkritiklink.htm#Karikaturen

Victorian Web on periodical 'Punch', including some images

http://www.victorianweb.org/periodicals/punch/punchov.html

LJ Jordaan Collection at site 'Memory of the Netherlands' (digital collections from national institutions)

http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl/gvnNL/handler.cfm/event/onpage/pageID/11C01FEF-6262-11D6-8F22-0002A508D0B7/collectionid/11C01FE7-6262-11D6-8F22-0002A508D0B7

Sparticus

(extensive information on artists, cartoonists and journals etc.)

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/

Bud Plant Illustrated Books

(very andy site with illustrator biographies, some less well known)

http://www.bpib.com/illustra.htm#new

Great Caricatures

(site covering mainly 19th century, French & English artists)

http://www.greatcaricatures.com/index.html

New York Public Library exhibition on James Gillray

(has c.60 images on-line)

http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/print/exhibits/gillray/

Honore Daumier

(many images of his work)

http://www.daumier.org/

The Masses (Images of American radicalism 1913-17)

(many images from the journal)

http://www.lib.msu.edu/coll/main/spec_col/radicalism/exhibits/masses/

Political Cartoon Society

(have articles on cartoon history)

http://www.politicalcartoon.co.uk/index.html

The Centre for the Study of Cartoons and Caricature (UK Cartoon Hub)

http://library.kent.ac.uk/cartoons/

Jim Zwick's site

(extensive scans of cartoons as well as much more, mainly up to WW1)

http://www.boondocksnet.com/index.html

American Political Prints 1766-1876

(vast site of great images)

http://loc.harpweek.com/default.asp

Griffioen-Grafiek (Dutch firm dealing in comic/political prints)

(many images on their site)

http://www.griffioen-grafiek.nl/

Site of illustrator Harry Clarke

(brilliant images from Edgar Allan Poe's 'Tales of Mystery and Imagination' and Goethe's 'Faust'; complete images as well)

http://www.grandmasgraphics.com/clarke1.htm

Mervyn Peake (official site and a site with a full bibliography)

http://www.mervynpeake.org/

http://www.peakestudies.com/contents.htm

Gerald Scarfe

http://www.geraldscarfe.com/index.asp

Sidney Sime

(fantastic illustrator with 24 images)

http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/%7Efadey/sime.html

Austin Osman Spare (fantastic/grotesque drawings with sketchbooks and some digitised books)

http://www.gnosis.art.pl/iluminatornia/sztuka_o_inspiracji/austin_spare/austin_spare.htm

http://www.fulgur.co.uk/authors/aos/

http://www.banger.com/spare/

Frederick Carter (fantastic/grotesque drawings and some digitised books)

http://www.banger.com/carter/carter.html

Ralph Steadman

http://www.ralphsteadman.com/

Jean de Bosschere dedication site

(many book illustrations including 'The Closed Door', 'Job le Pauvre', 'The City Curious', 'The Poems of Oscar Wilde' and 'Little Poems in Prose')

http://tools.nitle.org/bosschere/index.php

Geographical Fun: being humorous outlines of various countries (Aleph [William Harvey], Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1869)

(complete book scanned)

http://www.themaphouse.com/frames6.html

Aberdeen University Historical Collections guide to collections of 'Satirical Prints, Pamphlets and Polemics'

(includes caricatures relating to Scotland)

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/newlibrary/documents/satirical-prints.pdf

(See additional information and links on my 'Wunderkammern' pages including a special section on L'Assiette au Beurre and La Baionnette)

Military/Political Propaganda Historical

The Great War In A Different Light

(accounts and Galleries from contemporary books and magazines. Huge site)

http://www.greatwardifferent.com/

Magazines of the Great War (French site)

http://tsfarg.club.fr/accueil.htm

Propaganda Postcards of the Great War

http://www.ww1-propaganda-cards.com/index.html

Italian Art (Italian site)

(site includes many images of Italian WWI satirical postcards)

http://www.toskana-art.it/

German Propaganda Archive (Nazi & GDR)

(although Nazi, a massive site with posters & cartoons etc.)

http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/

Propaganda Leaflets of the Second World War (Allied & Axis)

(fascinating site with many images of the leaflets dropped)

http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/4503/index.html

Psywarrior

(site on psychological warfare including use of banknotes, postcards, stamps, leaflets etc.)

http://www.psywarrior.com/

Psychological Warfare

(another site with similar to above, including articles)

http://www.psywar.org/index.php

Psy War Society

http://www.psywarsoc.org/

Propaganda Leaflets for sale

http://www.propaganda-leaflets.com/

War Images - the art of propaganda

(image bank)

http://www.war-images.com/

Vintage Postcards (American dealers)

(many images on site, military and political propaganda especially)

http://www.vintagepostcards.com/

Spanish Civil War posters (nearly 100 on-line)

http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/visfront/index.html

The Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (University of Minnesota)

(many images of Nazi propaganda, including notgeld, postcards etc.)

http://www.chgs.umn.edu/index.html

WW1 & WW2 posters and postcards (hundreds)

(University of Minnesota Libraries)

http://digital.lib.umn.edu/warposters/warpost.html

Propaganda posters (mainly WW2) - over 500 scanned examples

http://www.happydeathinc.com/propaganda/

Japanese postcards (Russo-Japanese war) presentation at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Leonard Lauder collection)

http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027j/asia_rising/ar_menu.html

http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027j/yellow_promise_yellow_peril/yp_menu.html

French WW1 posters (105 online) at University of Illinois Library

http://www.library.uiuc.edu/hix/WWI_Posters/index.html

(See additional information and links on my 'Wunderkammern' pages  including special sections on American Civil War envelopes, anti-war books and propaganda postcards/graphics)

Art Medals

Karl Goetz

(huge number of his medals scanned, see his WW1 satirical/propaganda examples)

http://www.karlgoetz.com/

More on WW1 german expressionist art medals (W Eberbach especially)

http://crestviewcable.com/~archy2/

Lusitania Medal (Karl Goetz)

http://www.lusitaniamedal.com/

German Art Medals (sections on Ludwig Gies with 53 medals scanned & thematics)

http://www.kunstmedaillen.de/

German Society of Medallic Art

(producers of great publications)

http://www.medaillenkunst.de/

Art Medals net - an international website of art medals

(emphasis is on art nouveau, but also has new artists)

http://www.artmedal.net/

Art Medal (focussed on Belgian and French art nouveau/deco medals)

http://www.artmedal.be/

British Art Medal Society

(gallery of images pages)

http://www.bams.org.uk/gallery.php

German Money Auction site

(lots of images)

http://www.muenzauktion.com/

Medals 4 Trade (uploads by collectors)

http://www.medals4trade.com/

Coin Archives

(Auction images, excellent site)

http://www.coinarchives.com/w/

(See additional information and links on my 'Wunderkammern' pages  including a special section on medallists Ludwig Gies and Karl Goetz)..

Woodcuts

Richard Correll

(woodcut art in 1930s Seattle communist paper 'Voice of Action')

http://faculty.washington.edu/gregoryj/cpproject/correll.htm

Lynd Ward woodcut novel 'Mad Mans Drum' on-line

http://www.madmansdrum.com/index.htm

Outsider Art

Raw Vision magazine

(International Journal of Intuitive and Visionary Art, Outsider Art, Art Brut, Contemporary Folk Art and Marginal Arts)

http://www.rawvision.com/mainmenu.php

Intuit - The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art

http://outsider.art.org/index.htm

The American Visionary Art Museum

http://www.avam.org/

The Anthony Petullo Collection of Self-Taught & Outsider Art

http://www.petulloartcollection.org/index.cfm

Scottish based artist grouping

http://www.artesian-arts.org/artesianframesetnew.htm

Archives/Libraries Digital Collections

Please note that some on-line exhibitions will be in other relevant sections, i.e. if they relate to 'Illustration/Caricature'.

ONLINE EXHIBITIONS

Museum of Modern Art

http://www.moma.org/

Exhibition, 'The Russian Avant-Garde Book 1910-1934'

http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2002/russian/index.html

Exhibition, 'Artists of Brucke, Themes in German Expressionist Prints'

http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2002/brucke/index.html

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

http://www.lacma.org/

On-Line Collections (Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies)

http://collectionsonline.lacma.org/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=browpage;dept=rifkind

Cornell University Library

http://www.library.cornell.edu/

'The Fantastic in Art and Fiction' exhibition (Angels & Demons, Danse Macabre, Weird Science, Bestiary, the Marvellous, the Grotesque, Possession & Insanity, Fantastic Space and Freaks, Monsters & Prodigies)

(295 amazing images from the collections)

http://fantastic.library.cornell.edu/

Museum of Fine Arts Boston

http://www.mfa.org/

Exhibition of Leonard A Lauder collection of Japanese postcards

http://www.mfa.org/master/sub.asp?key=41&subkey=837l

The New York Public Library

http://www.nypl.org/digital/

New York Public Library exhibition on 'Utopia: The Search for the Ideal Society in the Western World'

(great resources pages on utopias)

http://www.nypl.org/utopia/

Tate Galleries

http://www.tate.org.uk/

Tate exhibition - 'Gothic Nightmares', 2006

http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/gothicnightmares/

British Printed Images To 1700

(images mainly from the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum)

http://www.bpi1700.org.uk/

DIGITISED BOOKS

Heidelberger University Library - The Heidelberger Totentanz (1488)

http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/totentanz1488/

University of Houston Libraries Special Collections - full digitisation of 'Das Narrenschiff' or 'The Ship of Fools' by Sebastian Brant, woodcuts attributed to Albrecht Durer.

http://info.lib.uh.edu/sca/digital/ship/index.html

SPECIAL SECTIONS

Monarchy

Throne Out

(not a political party or a pressure group but a website of royal baiting)

http://www.throneout.com/default.asp

Movement Against the Monarchy (MAM)

(activist group)

http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/1793/Index.html

Republic - The Campaign for an elected head of state

http://www.republic.org.uk/

Religion

National Secular Society

http://www.secularism.org.uk/

British Humanist Association

Humanist Society of Scotland

http://www.humanism.org.uk/site/cms/

http://www.humanism-scotland.org.uk/

4 Athiests

(American site, check out the links page)

http://www.4atheists.com/links.cfm

Anti-Christian Voice

(a spoof site set up to undermine those nutters at the group 'Christian Voice'

http://www.antichristianvoice.org.uk/index.htm

Mediawatchwatch

(a site monitoring the militant faiths)

http://mediawatchwatch.org.uk/

Wikipedia entry on 'Index Librorum Prohibitorum' (List of prohibited books drawn up by the Catholic Church from 1529-1966)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_Librorum_Prohibitorum

Peace Groups/Anti-Nuclear/Anti-Arms Trade

Disarm DSEi (Defence Systems and Equipment International) Shutdown Spearhead

(Protests against the world's biggest arms fair)

http://www.dsei.org/

(Edinburgh) Stop The War Coalition

http://www.edinburghstw.org.uk/

http://www.stopwar.org.uk/index.htm

Trident Ploughshares

http://www.tridentploughshares.org/index.php3

CND (CND Scotland)

http://www.banthebomb.org/

http://www.cnduk.org/

NukeWatch Scotland

http://www.nukewatch-scotland.org.uk/

Woman in Black in Scotland

http://www.wibs.org.uk/

Campaign Against The Arms Trade

http://www.caat.org.uk/index.php

UXB Scotland

(Community against military occupation and contamination)

http://www.scotland-uxb.org/index.html

Conscience (The Peace Tax Campaign)

http://www.conscienceonline.org.uk/

Anti-War Museum, Berlin

http://www.anti-kriegs-museum.de/index.html

Environmental

Greenpeace

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/