A Modest Proposal: Currency Alphabet Edition

Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal' satirizes the greed and violence of British colonialism in Ireland. For his For & Against pamphlet, Ferenc Gróf reprinted it in a newly designed typeface made up of currency symbols from around the globe. 

Artists

Ferenc Gróf

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Project Partners

Dr Gillian Whiteley

Senior Lecturer in Art History and Visual Culture
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For & Against: Art, Politics and the Pamphlet

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