Norman Rockwell’s memetic Freedom of Speech

How a Patriotic Painting Became the Internet's Soap Box

…"The Four Freedoms" and Rockwell's interpretations of them were everywhere in American life in the 1940s. They appeared on covers of The Saturday Evening Post, where Rockwell regularly published his work. The government put them on postage stamps, displayed them in an exhibition as part of its nationwide war-bond drive and printed them on posters that helped raise $133 million for the war effort...

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