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

Lubin, David M., author

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\"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.

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Subject: 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.
• ISBN: 9780520283633, 0520283635

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
N9155.U6 L83 2015	1	BOOK	ARTS