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Wake Up, America. World War I and the American Poster.
by Walton Rawls, Maurice Rickards
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Abbeville Press (2001-05-01)
ISBN: 0896598888
EAN: 9780896598881
Dewey Decimal #: 940.30222
Binding/Media: Hardcover - 288 pages
Edition: 1st
SKU: MY - LG A 3
Condition: New
Comments: 1988, Stated First Edition, 9 x 12, 288 pages, Hardcover with dustjacket in protected mylar cover (removable). Book and Dustjacket are in Unused Condition. Book is completely intact with inside pages in Excellent Condition with no tears and with no notations (no pencil marks, no underlining, no highlighting, etc.) ( « if ( document.getElementById ) { document.writeln('less'); } )
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
The "War to End All Wars" did not begin as a popular cause. Americans were reluctant to get involved in what they viewed as Europe's war and reelected Woodrow Wilson on his promise to keep this nation out of it. When war became inevitable, public opinion had to be turned around. To do this, the government mobilized the talents of an incredible cadre of artists to create "pictorial publicity" for all aspects of the war effort - from recruiting to war relief to food and fuel conservation. Artists of the calibre of James Montgomery Flagg, Howard Chandler Christy, Charles Dana Gibson, J.C. Leyendecker and N.C. Wyeth produced an impressive -even magnificent - body of art, yet all but a handful of these posters have been almost totally forgotten. In this volume, historian Walton Rawls combines a stirring popular history of America's role in World War I with a remarkable collection of posters that boldly demonstrate their artistic worth. The text, while providing ample art-historical background, concentrates on the all-absorbing historical and political context in which the posters were created. The result is a fascinating look at these artifacts, which can be appreciated today both as graphic masterworks and as illustrations of a tragic historical episode.
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Customer Reviews
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A patriotic exploration of the WWI poster's contemporary context
Rating  (4)
Date: 2009-12-24
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
While Rawls takes a somewhat naive approach to the motives and methods behind America's actions leading up to and during the First World War, his book incorporates the history of the propaganda poster into a readable, highly useful examination of WWI phenomena including the Committee on Public Information, the Liberty Loans and the US Food Administration.
Essential reading for students of American military poster propaganda and the circumstances on the home front during the Great War, though I'd recommend getting your political interpretation of this period from other sources (for instance, "The Politics of War" by Walter Karp -- quite a different take on the same period, particularly on Wilson's motives).
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Rather boring presentation of what should've been an exciting subject.
Rating  (2)
Date: 2008-03-23
0 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
Another example of a bargain table book in a Barnes & Noble or Borders. Not much good to say for it.
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