Picture This: World War I Posters and Visual Culture (Studies in War, Society, and the Military)

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Author(s): Pearl James
Year: 2010

Language: English
Pages: 416

Contents......Page 6
Illustrations......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction: Reading World War I Posters......Page 16
1. Imaginings of War......Page 52
Part 1. War Poster Campaigns and Images, Comparative Readings......Page 74
2. Barbaric Anti-Modernism......Page 76
3. Chivalrous Knights versus Iron Warriors......Page 94
4. Regression versus Progression......Page 126
Part 2. Envisioning the Nation and Imagining National Aesthetics......Page 158
5. Young Blood......Page 160
6. Race and Empire in French Posters of the Great War......Page 187
7. Images of Racial Pride......Page 222
8. Segodniashnii Lubok......Page 256
Part 3. Figuring the Body in the Context of War......Page 286
9. Images of Femininity in American World War I Posters......Page 288
10. Humanitarians and He-Men......Page 327
11. Iconography of Injury......Page 355
Epilogue......Page 384
Selected Bibliography......Page 392
Contributors......Page 398
Index......Page 402