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Picture this : World War I posters and visual culture / edited and with an introduction by Pearl James.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in war, society, and the military.
- Studies in war, society, and the military
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1914-1918--Posters.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- War posters--History--20th century.
- War posters.
- World War, 1914-1918--Art and the war.
- Visual communication--History--20th century.
- Visual communication.
- Popular culture--History--20th century.
- Popular culture.
- World War, 1914-1918--Social aspects.
- World War, 1914-1918--Propaganda.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (416 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Essays by Jay Winter, Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Jennifer D. Keene, and others reveal the centrality of visual media, particularly the poster, within the specific national contexts of Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and the United States during World War I. Ultimately, posters were not merely representations of popular understanding of the war, but instruments influencing the
- Contents:
- Introduction: Reading World War I posters / Pearl James
- Imaginings of war : posters and the shadow of the lost generation / Jay Winter
- War poster campaigns and images, comparative readings
- Barbaric anti-modernism : representations of the "Hun" in Britain, North America, Australia, and beyond / Nicoletta F. Gullace
- Chivalrous knights versus iron warriors : representations of the battle of materiel and slaughter in Britain and Germany, 1914-1940 / Stefan Goebel
- Regression versus progression : fundamental differences in German and American posters of the First World War / Jakub Kazecki and Jason Lieblang
- Envisioning the nation and imagining national aesthetics
- Young blood : Parisian schoolgirls' transformation of France's Great War poster aesthetic / Mark Levitch
- Race and empire in French posters of the Great War / Richard S. Fogarty
- Images of racial pride : African American propaganda posters in the First World War / Jennifer D. Keene
- Segodniashnii Lubok : art, war, and national identity / Andrew M. Nedd
- Figuring the body in the context of war
- Images of femininity in American World War I posters / Pearl James
- Humanitarians and he-men : recruitment posters and the masculine ideal / Meg Albrinck
- Iconography of injury : encountering the wounded soldier's body in American poster art and photography of World War I / John M. Kinder
- Epilogue / Jeffrey T. Schnapp.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612424519
- 9781282424517
- 1282424513
- 9780803226951
- 0803226950
- OCLC:
- 595320755
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