New KAM Exhibit Depicts Dutch Prints as the Original Social Media

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A new exhibition at Krannert Art Museum, “Fake News & Lying Pictures: Political Prints in the Dutch Republic,” examines the visual strategies of Dutch printmakers and the ways they used images to promote political interests.

A 17th-century meme? A new KAM exhibit, “Fake News & Lying Pictures: Political Prints in the Dutch Republic,” depicts Dutch prints as the original social media and explores the visual strategies of printmakers and how they used images to promote political interests.

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Jodi Heckel

Sep 04, 2022

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