@article{jbp:/content/journals/10.1075/idj.1.2.05mar, author = "Margolin, Victor", title = "The visual rhetoric of propaganda", journal= "Information Design Journal", year = "1979", volume = "1", number = "2", pages = "107-122", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1075/idj.1.2.05mar", url = "https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/idj.1.2.05mar", publisher = "John Benjamins", issn = "0142-5471", type = "Journal Article", abstract = "This paper reviews the history of propaganda from classical Greece to the present day. Three levels of political propaganda are proposed — myth, ideology and action — and their interaction described. The prevalence of propaganda techniques is identified in numerous regimes — both wartime and peace-time, and both totalitarian and democratic", }