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

by David M. Lubin

Flags and Faces , based on David Lubin's 2008 Franklin D. Murphy Lectures at the University of Kansas, shows how American artists, photographers, and graphic designers helped shape public perceptions about World War I. In the book's first section, "Art for War's Sake," Lubin considers how flag-based patriotic imagery prompted Americans to intervene in Europe in 1917. Trading on current anxieties about class, gender, and nationhood, American visual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520283635
• ISBN13: 9780520283633
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.8" x 8.1"