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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; 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.

Subject

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 and index.

ISBN

9780520283633
0520283635

LCCN

2014025478
40024700332

OCLC

ocn883748715
883748715
SCSB-5795735

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries