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Picture this : World War I posters and visual culture / edited and with an introduction by Pearl James.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
James, Pearl.
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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