Threaded through the series of black and white images and titles that relate to the configuration of 'Angriff' is a political iconography of persecution, made trenchant here and the related lithograph by the ironic title Angriff. Der Angriff (the word means 'attack' in German) was a Nazi newspaper founded by Joseph Goebbels in 1927 and used as one of his principal propaganda organs. The lithographic version of 'Angriff' that predates this edition- was adapted as a screenprint in support of the Chicago Eight, a clear demonstration of the artist's association of the image with unsettling political events.
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Screenprint in black and grey, on Fabriano wove
Signed, dated and numbered from the edition of 150
From Conspiracy: The Artist as Witness
Printed by Styria Studio, New York
Published by the Center for Constitutional Rights, New York
Image: 26.7 × 26.7 cm (10.5 × 10.5 in)
Sheet: 45.7 × 61 cm (18 × 24 in)
Axsom 56.1
In very good condition
This work was included in the portfolio 'Conspiracy: The Artist as Witness' which was published in 1971-72 to raise a defence fund for the political activists who were tried for conspiracy because of their involvement in the antiwar demonstrations during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
— Richard H. Axsom, Frank Stella Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné (Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation, 2016), 116-7