Picture This: World War I Posters and Visual Culture

Picture This: World War I Posters and Visual Culture
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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.
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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 lifeâ€”factory work, agricultural work, domestic work, the consumption and conservation of goods, as well as various forms of leisureâ€”became, through the viewing of posters, emblematic of national identity and of each citizenâ€™s place within the collective effort to win the war.
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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.Â 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.
Country USA
Brand University of Nebraska Press
Manufacturer University of Nebraska Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 54 illustrations
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9780803226104
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	University of Nebraska Press
Manufacturer	University of Nebraska Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	54 illustrations
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9780803226104
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Picture This: World War I Posters and Visual Culture

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