Flags and Faces - The Visual Culture of America''s First World War

"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.

Summary

Shows how American artists, photographers, and graphic designers helped to shape public perceptions about World War I. This book considers how flag-based patriotic imagery prompted Americans to intervene in Europe in 1917, and contemplates the corrosive effects of the war on soldiers who lost their faces on the battlefield.

Product details

• Authors: David M Lubin, David M. Lubin, Lubin David M.
• Assisted by: David M. Lubin (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.02.2015
• EAN: 9780520283633
• ISBN: 978-0-520-28363-3
• No. of pages: 124
• Series: Franklin D. Murphy Lectures; Franklin D. Murphy Lectures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; USA, First World War, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), HISTORY / Military / United States, ART / American / General, History of Art, Art treatments & subjects, United States of America, USA, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), The Arts: treatments and subjects, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I