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The Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University presents “Dissent!” through Feb. 25.

The exhibition of 62 prints, books, postcards, posters, magazines, T-shirts and playing cards presents a historical survey of printed images that express resistance to oppressive religious, political and social systems. In doing so, the exhibition demonstrates to role of printmaking in the dissemination of dissonant opinions.

The exhibition also examines the role that celebrated artists such as Edouard Manet, Pablo Picasso, Jenny Holzer and Richard Serra have played in the promulgation of politically subversive prints.

In their most politicized mode, prints have publicized acts of tyranny and repression and called for change: prints such as Francisco Goya’s Los Caprichos criticized the suppression of Enlightenment ideas in Spain at the turn of the 19th century, while Serra’s Stop BS condemned the recent scandals at Abu Ghraib prison.