Marianne Kinkel

MARIANNE KINKEL is Associate Professor of Fine Arts at Washington State University. Her book, Races of Mankind: The Sculptures of Malvina Hoffman (2011), discusses how Reinhardt engaged cartography in the Races of Mankind cartoons.

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Critical Humor in Ad Reinhardt's Races of Mankind Cartoons

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During World War II, Ad Reinhardt’s cartoons for the Races of Mankind pamphlet engaged what Gunnar Myrdal later called the “American Dilemma.”
figure 1. Ad Reinhardt, cover, Ruth Benedict and Gene Weltfish, The Races of Mankind (New York: Public Affairs Committee, 1943). Courtesy Ad Reinhardt Foundation.

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