Picture this: World War I posters and visual culture

Abstract

I. Introduction Reading World War I Posters. Pearl James (University of Kentucky) Imaginings of War: Posters the Shadow of the Lost Generation. Jay Winter (Yale University) II. War Poster Campaigns Images: Comparative Readings Clash of Civilizations: Representations of the Hun in British American War Posters. Nicoletta F. Gullace (University of New Hampshire) Iron Warriors versus Chivalrous Knights--Military Virtues versus Civic Values: German British Representations of the Battle of Materiel and Slaughter. Stefan Goebel (University of Kent) Regression Versus Progression: Comparing Fundamental Differences in the Language of German American Posters of the First World War. Jason Lieblang (University of Toronto) Jakub Kazecki (University of British Columbia) III. Envisioning the Nation Imagining National Aesthetics Young Blood: Parisian Schoolgirls' Transformation of France's Great War Poster Aesthetic. Mark Levitch (University of Pennsylvania) Race Empire in French Posters of the Great War. Richard S. Fogarty (SUNY-Albany) Images of Racial Pride: African American Propaganda Posters in the First World War. Jennifer D. Keene (Chapman University) Segodniashnnii Lubok: Art, War, National Identity. Andrew Nedd (Savannah College) IV. Figuring the Body in the Context of War Images of Femininity in American World War I Posters. Pearl James (University of Kentucky) Humanitarians He-Men: Recruitment Posters the Masculine Ideal. Meg Albrinck (Lakeland College) Iconography of Injury: Encountering the Wounded Soldier's Body in American Poster Art Photography of World War I. John M. Kinder (Indiana University) Epilogue. Jeffrey T. Schnapp (Stanford University)