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Flags and Faces

Name: Flags and Faces
Brand: University of California Press
SKU: 9780520283633
Price: 169.29 PLN
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The Visual Culture of America's First World War

Autor: David M. Lubin

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Oprawa: Twarda

Wydawca: University of California Press

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Flags and Faces, based on David Lubin's 2008 Franklin D. Murphy Lectures at the University of Kansas...

Informacje o książce

Autor

David M. Lubin

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

2015

strony

124

EAN

9780520283633

ISBN

0520283635

Enbook ID

08015191

Wydawca

University of California Press

Waga

364

Wymiary

211 x 162 x 14

Pełny opis

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 back home. Unable to endure distasteful reminders of war's brutality, postwar Americans grew obsessed with physical beauty, as seen in the simultaneous rise of cosmetic surgery, the makeup industry, beauty pageants, and the cult of screen goddesses such as Greta Garbo, who was worshipped for the masklike perfection of her face. Engaging, provocative, and filled with arresting and at times disturbing illustrations, Flags and Faces offers striking new insights into American art and visual culture from 1915 to 1930.