Button Power: 125 Years of Saying It with Buttons

Button Power is a book that explores American culture through pin-back buttons, featuring commentary from two button experts and a diverse range of artists, athletes, actors, politicians, and musicians. It is a visual feast with colorful photographs and artifacts, appealing to fans of pop culture, visual culture, and design.

Format: Hardback
Length: 192 pages
Publication date: 13 October 2020
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press

From the campaign trail to the rock tour, Button Power chronicles a people's history of American culture through the pin-back button. Lively commentary from two of America's foremost button experts reveals how the small but powerful button reveals the events and movements that have outraged, amused, and inspired us over time, from Charles Lindbergh's solo flight to the Black Power movement. Artists, athletes, actors, politicians, punk and pop musicians, and mascots from the past 125 years make cameos, including Rube Goldberg, Muhammad Ali, the Ramones, Shirley Chisholm, Maratona the Snake Handler, and Ray Stevens, singer of "The Streak." The first book of its kind, Button Power is a rich visual feast. Each colorful spread chronicles defining moments in history through colorful photographs and artifacts. This collection will be an essential pick for fans of pop culture, visual culture, and design.

Weight: 754g
Dimension: 210 x 236 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781616898700