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Flags and Faces: The Visual Culture of America´s First World War
David M. Lubin
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Description for Flags and Faces: The Visual Culture of America´s First World War
Hardback. Shows how American artists, photographers, and graphic designers helped to shape public perceptions about World War I. This book considers how flag-based patriotic imagery prompted Americans to intervene in Europe in 1917, and contemplates the corrosive effects of the war on soldiers who lost their faces on the battlefield. Series: Franklin D. Murphy Lectures. Num Pages: 124 pages, 41 color, 17 b/w. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJF; ACXD; AG; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 211 x 14. Weight in Grams: 364.
Flags and Faces, based on David Lubin's 2008 Franklin D. Murphy Lectures at the University of Kansas, shows how American artists, photographers, and graphic designers helped shape public perceptions about World War I. In the book's first section, Art for War's Sake," Lubin considers how flag-based patriotic imagery prompted Americans to intervene in Europe in 1917. Trading on current anxieties about class, gender, and nationhood, American visual culture made war with Germany seem inevitable. The second section, Fixing Faces," contemplates the corrosive effects of the war on soldiers who literally lost their faces on the battlefield, and on their families ... Read more
Flags and Faces, based on David Lubin's 2008 Franklin D. Murphy Lectures at the University of Kansas, shows how American artists, photographers, and graphic designers helped shape public perceptions about World War I. In the book's first section, Art for War's Sake," Lubin considers how flag-based patriotic imagery prompted Americans to intervene in Europe in 1917. Trading on current anxieties about class, gender, and nationhood, American visual culture made war with Germany seem inevitable. The second section, Fixing Faces," contemplates the corrosive effects of the war on soldiers who literally lost their faces on the battlefield, and on their families ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
Series
Franklin D. Murphy Lectures
Number of Pages
124
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520283633
SKU
V9780520283633
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About David M. Lubin
David M. Lubin, the Charlotte C. Weber Professor of Art at Wake Forest University, teaches art history, film studies, and popular culture. His books include Act of Portrayal, Picturing a Nation, the BFI monograph Titanic, and Shooting Kennedy, which received the Smithsonian Institution's Eldredge Prize for outstanding scholarship in American art.
Reviews for Flags and Faces: The Visual Culture of America´s First World War
"An interesting and brief introduction to America's visual culture in the context of World War I."
Susana Rocha Teixeira H-Net (H-Soz-u-Kult)
Susana Rocha Teixeira H-Net (H-Soz-u-Kult)