How about one more try?" / Herblock." – Antique Print
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How about one more try?" / Herblock." comes to life in this historic drawing, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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How about one more try?" / Herblock."
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Herblock's drawing places John F. Kennedy, Harold Macmillan and Nikita Khrushchev alongside a jinn, or genie, and a rising mushroom cloud, a pairing that casts nuclear testing as a bargain no one can fully control. The title, "How about one more try?", points to the early-1960s effort to end atmospheric weapons tests, which led to the 1963 Limited Test Ban Treaty. Herbert Block, the Washington Post cartoonist known as Herblock, used simple symbols like this to explain complicated policy to newspaper readers. The drawing is a good example of how political cartoons of the period turned arms control into a single, pointed question.
| Medium | 1 drawing on layered paper : ink, graphite, and opaque white over graphite underdrawing ; 57.2 x 38.3 cm. (sheet) |
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| Notes | c1963. |
| Subjects | Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald),--1917-1963. Macmillan, Harold,--1894-1986. Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich,--1894-1971. Nculear weapons testing--1960-1970. Mushroom clouds--1960-1970. Jinns--1960-1970. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,293 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-202979 |
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