The visual rhetoric of propaganda

Margolin, Victor

doi:10.1075/idj.1.2.05mar

Article published In: Information Design Journal
Vol. 1:2 (1979) ► pp.107–122

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The visual rhetoric of propaganda

Victor Margolin | Columbia College, Chicago

Published online: 1 January 1979

https://doi.org/10.1075/idj.1.2.05mar

This paper reviews the history of propaganda from classical Greece to the present day. Three levels of political propaganda are proposed — myth, ideology and action — and their interaction described. The prevalence of propaganda techniques is identified in numerous regimes — both wartime and peace-time, and both totalitarian and democratic

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