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Author Paret, Peter.

Title Persuasive images : posters of war and revolution from the Hoover Institution archives / Peter Paret, Beth Irwin Lewis, Paul Paret
Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1992]
©1992

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Description xv, 233 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Table of contents for Persuasive images : posters of war and revolution from the Hoover Institution archives / Peter Paret, Beth Irwin Lewis, Paul Paret. -- Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog -- Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. May be incomplete or contain other coding. -- Introduction: Posters and Modern History Note on the Posters Prologue: Before 1914 2 I The First World War 1 The Outbreak of War 10 2 The Enemy 20 3 Combat 30 4 Self-Images 40 5 Appeals to Serve 50 6 War Loans 68 7 Food and Industry 78 8 The End of the War 88 II The Interwar Years 9 Revolutions 100 10 The Soviet Union 112 11 Germany and National Socialism 122 12 The Spanish Civil War 134 III The Second World War 13 Early Stages 142 14 The Air War 150 15 The Invasion of Russia 160 16 The New Order 170 17 Home Fronts 182 18 The United States at War 192 19 The Last Year 204 Epilogue: After 1845 214 Editorial Note and Acknowledgments 223 Bibliographical Note 224 List of Posters 225 Index of Artists 232 -- Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: World War, 1914-1918 Posters, World War, 1939-1945 Posters, Soviet Union History Revolution, 1917-1921 Posters, War posters
Summary Political posters are historical documents. They open windows to the conditions and conflicts of an earlier time. In their designs and slogans we see how governments and political factions responded to economic crises, social change. and ideological and armed conflict, and how they sought to sway the perceptions and feelings of the man and woman in the street. Posters are also aesthetic objects. Their composition, color and symbols are both separate from their overt political message and the instruments of expressing it. Posters reveal their historical meaning more clearly if we pay attention to their visual characteristics as well as to their political intent. This book treats the poster both as art and as historical witness. Posters are not relegated to the secondary role of illustrating a historical text nor are they treated as autonomous aesthetic objects in a history of applied arts. Instead they are substantial components of a historical narrative that is made up of both image and text. The close interaction of words and posters drawn from Russia, central and western Europe, and the United States, opens fresh perspectives on a half century of war and revolution and constitutes a step toward a new kind of integrative history that conveys the past with unusual immediacy
Analysis Soviet Union History Posters Revolution, 1917-1921
War posters
World War, 1914-1918 Posters
World War, 1939-1945 Posters
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 224) and index
Subject Propaganda -- Posters.
War posters.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Posters.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Posters.
SUBJECT USSR -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125808 -- Posters. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003003680
Genre/Form Posters.
Author Lewis, Beth Irwin, 1934-
Paret, Paul, 1968-
Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace.
LC no. 92004388
ISBN 0691032041