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Draw me an AK-47: Transnational imaginaries in the trenches of the cold war

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Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference
This paper examines the image of the Kalashnikov in the cold war period through two intersecting lenses that cut across disciplines of design –– the object in its public mediation and the image in its transnational circulation through print culture.

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Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference
People
Zeina Maasri
Keywords
AK-47
image circulation
Transnational
revolutionary
armed struggle
Department: Department for Continuing Education
Date Added: 30/09/2014
Duration: 00:04:22

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