Scope and Contents This second edition of the book is a complete work of art, offensive in every sense of the word, and as an artistic manifesto about violence in the twenty-first century, it couldn't be any more current, especially given movements like activist art. Pornografie was first published in 1971, and has subsequently become an outstanding and timeless document of political artwork. The Gerrman film-maker Klaus Staeck took news photographs and the advertisements as the basis of this hard-hitting anti-Vietnam War, anti-violence artist`s book.Seven Decaders Books: Klaus Staeck created this book in 1971 as a reaction to the Vietnam War and a protest of the values of the society which allowed the war to continue. Its content is entirely visual and consists largely of blown up press photos and grainy newsreel images as it devel-ops in chapters showing war and its aftermath, protest and its suppression, weaponry and other instruments of violence and con-trol, and finally a long series of...