Obama presidential campaign inspires art book

The graffiti artist who created the now-iconic "Hope" image of Barack Obama is set to release a new book that marshals artworks inspired by the U.S. president and the 2008 presidential campaign.

U.S. artist Shepard Fairey will co-edit with Jennifer Gross the forthcoming book Art for Obama: Designing for Manifest Hope and the Campaign for Change.

Set to debut in October, the title features 150 images — collages, paintings, photo composites, prints and computer-generated works — by Fairey and such fellow artists as Ron English, David Choe, Kwaku Alston, Maya Hayuk, Justin Hampton and Shel Starkman.

Many of the works collected in the book are pieces drawn from the Manifest Hope art shows that took place at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver and in Washington, D.C., prior to Inauguration Day.

Profits from Art for Obama's sales will go to Americans for the Arts, a nonprofit group dedicated to supporting artists, arts education and participation in the arts for everyone in the U.S.

Fairey remains mired in a legal dispute with The Associated Press over the photo that inspired his stylized Obama "Hope" poster, which became one of the emblems of the 2008 U.S. election.