End Bad Breath

Seymour Chwast · 1967 · Woodcut and photo-offset

A green-faced Uncle Sam opens his mouth to reveal fighter jets bombing Hanoi, the headline reading simply: "End Bad Breath." Made in 1967 to protest the U.S. bombing campaign in Vietnam, it borrows the graphic snap of a nineteenth-century political broadside and turns a patriotic icon into an indictment. Wit as the sharpest political tool.

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