Picture This: World War I Posters and Visual Culture - Couverture souple

 
9780803226104: Picture This: World War I Posters and Visual Culture
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0803226101 ISBN 13 : 9780803226104
Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 2010

Synopsis

The First World War was waged through the participation not just of soldiers but of men, women, and children on the home front. Mass-produced, full-color, large-format war posters were both a sign and an instrument of this historic shift in warfare. War posters celebrated, in both their form and content, the modernity of the conflict. They also reached an enormous international audience through their prominent display and continual reproduction in pamphlets and magazines in every combatant nation, uniting diverse populations as viewers of the same image and bringing them closer, in an imaginary and powerful way, to the war. Most war posters were aimed particularly at civilian populations. Posters nationalized, mobilized, and modernized those populations, thereby influencing how they viewed themselves and their activities. The home-front life--factory work, agricultural work, domestic work, the consumption and conservation of goods, as well as various forms of leisure--became, through the viewing of posters, emblematic of national identity and of each citizen's place within the collective effort to win the war. 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 reach, meaning, and memory of the war in subtle and pervasive ways.

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À propos de l?auteur

Pearl James is an assistant professor of English at the University of Kentucky. Contributors: Meg Albrinck, Richard S. Fogarty, Stefan Goebel, Nicoletta F. Gullace, Pearl James, Jakub Kazecki, Jennifer D. Keene, John M. Kinder, Mark Levitch, Jason Lieblang, Andrew Nedd, Jeffrey T. Schnapp, and Jay Winter.

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Éditeur
University of Nebraska Press
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0803226101
ISBN 13 
9780803226104
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
416
Éditeur
James Pearl
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