Studies in War, Society, and the Military Series
416 pages
53 illustrations
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Reading World War I Posters
Pearl James
1. Imaginings of War: Posters and the Shadow of the Lost Generation
Jay Winter
Part 1. War Poster Campaigns and Images, Comparative Readings
2. Barbaric Anti-Modernism: Representations of the "Hun" in Britain, North America, Australia, and Beyond
Nicoletta F. Gullace
3. Chivalrous Knights versus Iron Warriors: Representations of the Battle of Matériel and Slaughter in Britain and Germany, 1914–1940
Stefan Goebel
4. Regression versus Progression: Fundamental Differences in German and American Posters of the First World War
Jakub Kazecki and Jason Lieblang
Part 2. Envisioning the Nation and Imagining National Aesthetics
5. Young Blood: Parisian Schoolgirls' Transformation of France's Great War Poster Aesthetic
Mark Levitch
6. Race and Empire in French Posters of the Great War
Richard S. Fogarty
7. Images of Racial Pride: African American Propaganda Posters in the First World War
Jennifer D. Keene
8. Segodniashnii Lubok: Art, War, and National Identity
Andrew M. Nedd
Part 3. Figuring the Body in the Context of War
9. Images of Femininity in American World War I Posters
Pearl James
10. Humanitarians and He-Men: Recruitment Posters and the Masculine Ideal
Meg Albrinck
11. Iconography of Injury: Encountering the Wounded Soldier's Body in American Poster Art and Photography of World War I
John M. Kinder
Epilogue
Jeffrey T. Schnapp
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Index