I loved the COINTELPRO coloring book page… so evil. Great exhibit!! I loved it!!

-Anonymous

Really informative! A well-curated collection. Fully enjoyed it — the variety in the narratives and the overtones.

-“Bala,” Canada

Loved this exhibit — it’s hard for me to process history, but when it’s presented in such a visually arresting way, it comes to life. Loved the captions/descriptions too. Thank you!

-Anonymous

An exquisitely well done art exhibit. Art remains neutral in its ability to show the politics of the times. Never imagined this art was out there. Great exhibit!

-Anonymous, New Jersey

As a lover of caricature and other forms of political art, this show immediately put me in the mind of the work of Goya, Daumier, and so many others. Fascinating to see this array of twentieth-century extensions of these traditions from so many different parts of the world.

-Holly Hatheway, Head, Marquand Library of Art and Archeology

能在这里看见当年的中文漫画，令人感到十分惊奇。尽管漫画本身采用的是荒诞的手法，但产生这些作品的那个年代也是十分荒诞的！愿世界永远和平 (To encounter here contemporary Chinese cartoons makes one very astonished! Although the function of cartoons intrinsically is to be absurd, those times when these cartoons were produced were absurd too! I wish peace).

-Anonymous. Translated by Martin Heijdra, Director, East Asian Library, Princeton University Library

This was a wonderful experience. Thanks to the organizers. As a Georgian I loved seeing pictures from "Niangi" — "Crocodile". Truly one of the most interesting exhibitions. მადლობა! (Thank you!)

-Anonymous.

Great exhibit. Really fantastic and different ways of thinking of images. Interesting descriptions and a fantastic original collection. I just happened upon this. We feel lucky! Thanks for making such great and interesting things available to the public.

-Anonymous

Loved this exhibition! Only Princeton with its massive artwork and precious volumes collection could have made this comprehensive and very interesting exhibition! Love visiting Firestone.

-A Princeton Native.

Informative and visually striking. Also love the design. Silhouettes at the exit are a great visual!!!

-Anonymous

Exhibit is wonderful. All GEN X must see and understand. I am 69 years old. History repeats itself. BE AWARE.

-Anonymous

A great exhibition to trigger thoughts and reflections of the current circumstances of the world: war and conflict, AI and the power of big data. Thank you.

-Vickie, a visitor from Hong Kong

Powerful and provocative! Well done!

-M & M.J. 2 NYers

What a fascinating exhibit! I loved seeing the explanations in the plaques.

-Anonymous

Beautiful exhibition! Thank you! <3

-Anonymous

Extremely thought provoking and so well curated! Paper or hard-copy of exhibit would be great!

-Anonymous

Bravo! A splendid exhibition! You must do a catalogue of these work!

-Patrizia Mainardi

A fascinating glance at what must have been ephemera - organizing and systematizing what might have been "trash" is a brilliant new way of looking at the propaganda. I would like to have seen more representation of the participants' propaganda rather than what seems to me as more peripheral parties (e.g. Georgia or Turkey as opposed to England, France, the US). And what of the present election?

-Anonymous

Curator response: Yes. This exhibition focused on bestiary in twentieth-century visual satire as best represented in our collections, or at least the parts of the collections we were able to thoroughly survey, and we did want to go somewhat beyond the usual-suspect great powers in our exploration of this practice. Your point is nonetheless well taken, and there is much, much more to say and look at in this realm. Enough to full many, many more galleries and exhibitions.

Very nice exhibit, thank you. Would be nice to see a broader selection of pieces. Seems somewhat concentrated. Also, I think Harry Bressler passed away. But overall very interesting!

-Anonymous

I loved this exhibit. Never been able to see different countries' views of different wars. Loved seeing all this art. Thank you.

-Non-Princeton person

This is a wonderfully designed exhibition space. I really enjoyed learning about these pieces you have assembled. Thank you!

-Anonymous

Beautiful exhibition! Thank you <3

-Anonymous

Racialized images and racist animosity seem conspicuously absent from this exhibition. Was it a conscious decision on the part of the curators to exclude that aspect? That material is, obviously, very problematic, but also needs to be studied as part of the history of the period and of this kind of visual culture.

-Anonymous

Curator response: Yes. The curators did decide early-on that we wanted to focus on hostility based on ideology and not on race. We were more interested in the impulse to dehumanize others based on what they think or believe, than on the impulse to dehumanize people on the basis of race. Part of the thinking there was that we just weren’t sure we would succeed in contextualizing the racializing material well enough to produce a benefit that would justify the potential of the display of that material to cause distress. Of course you are correct that that material is very much worthy of study and the picture of weaponized visual humor in the twentieth century is incomplete without it.

I thought the exhibit was quite fascinating and I appreciated how it bridged countries and political eras as much as it could. I did notice I didn't read any reference to antisemitic imagery within the 'fat capitalist' trope, which felt like it might be present. Thank you for your creative work!

-Anonymous

Curator response: Many thanks for this question. In our perception there was nothing overtly antisemitic in the images you're referring to. That said, these images are full of subtle allusions, tensions, and ambiguities. As curators we didn't want to try to resolve these ambiguities or to make any decisions for the viewer, nor did we want to declare intentions on the part of the artists where those intentions were not uneqivocally manifest.

Early in this exhibition, many of the book pages on the left side feature a giant fat lady. Even though presumably not part of this exhibition, who or what did she symbolize, please!

Pat Summers

Curator response: Large women in Turkish caricature of this period often represented modernity and, frequently, a distinctly Western-styled excess. These women represent idle, over-indulged women with Western sensibilities, immoderate consumption and materialism.