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Flags and faces : the visual culture of America's First World War

Title
Flags and faces : the visual culture of America's First World War / David M. Lubin.
Author
Lubin, David M.
Publication
  • Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
  • ©2015

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Description
xii, 108 pages : illustrations (some color); 21 cm.
Summary
"From the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915 to the declaration of war against Germany in 1917, American artists and designers used their well-honed visual skills to campaign for or against intervention. During this period, Old Glory assumed its present role as a patriotic icon. After the war, as Americans tried to forget the horrors their soldiers had encountered abroad, medical advances in facial reconstruction for disfigured combatants gave rise to cosmetic plastic surgery and a flourishing makeup industry, elements in a conspicuously new distaste for plainness and aging and obsession with youth and beauty. Flags and Faces analyzes these respective aspects of American visual culture in the shadow of the First World War"--Provided by publisher.
Series Statement
The Franklin D. Murphy lecture series
Uniform Title
Franklin D. Murphy lectures.
Alternative Title
Visual culture of America's First World War
Subject
  • World War (1914-1918)
  • 1900 - 1999
  • World War, 1914-1918 > United States > In art
  • World War, 1914-1918 > Art and the war
  • World War, 1914-1918 > United States > Propaganda
  • Visual communication > United States > History > 20th century
  • Popular culture > United States > History > 20th century
  • Art, American > 20th century
  • Symbolism > United States > History > 20th century
  • Surgery, Plastic > United States > History
  • World War, 1939-1945 > Medical care > United States
  • Art, American
  • Popular culture
  • Propaganda
  • Symbolism
  • Visual communication
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • Art.
  • History.
Note
  • "In association with the Spencer Museum of Art and Kress Foundation Department of Art History, the University of Kansas."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 87-98) and index.
Contents
Art for war's sake -- Fixing faces.
Call Number
JQD 15-166
ISBN
  • 9780520283633
  • 0520283635
LCCN
2014025478
OCLC
883748715
Author
Lubin, David M., author.
Title
Flags and faces : the visual culture of America's First World War / David M. Lubin.
Publisher
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
Copyright Date
©2015
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
The Franklin D. Murphy lecture series
Franklin D. Murphy lectures.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 87-98) and index.
Chronological Term
1900 - 1999
Research Call Number
JQD 15-166
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