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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
  • 1900 - 1999
  • World War, 1914-1918 > United States > Art and the war
  • 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
  • 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 and index.
ISBN
  • 9780520283633
  • 0520283635
LCCN
  • 2014025478
  • 40024700332
OCLC
  • ocn883748715
  • 883748715
  • SCSB-5795735
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries