Spencer Museum of Art The University of Kansas

Printed Art and Social Radicalism

Politics by Peter Saul
Peter Saul United States, born 1934
Politics, 1985
Lithograph

Gift of Don, Joyce, and Josh Omer, 1989.0024 In identifying a means for his social criticism, Peter Saul has cultivated what we might call an aesthetic of nausea. He makes calculated use of the ugly and the repulsive in his criticism of the aspects of American culture he seeks to criticize, in this case, the presidency of Ronald Reagan.