Home Front Posters

Author : William L. Bird
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568981406
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Design for Victory written by William L. Bird and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 1998-06 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poster - inexpensive, colorful, and immediate - was an ideal medium for delivering messages about Americans' duties on the home front during World War II. Design for Victory presents more than 150 of these stunning images - many never reproduced since their first issue - culled from the collections of the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. William L. Bird, Jr. and Harry R. Rubenstein delve beneath the surface of these colorful graphics, telling the stories behind their production and revealing how posters fulfilled the goals and needs of their creators. The authors describe the history of how specific posters were conceived and received, focusing on the workings of the wartime advertising profession and demonstrating how posters often reflected uneasy relations between labor and management.

Author : Thames and Hudson
Publisher : Thames and Hudson
ISBN 13 : 9780500290552
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fit Men Wanted written by Thames and Hudson and published by Thames and Hudson. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best of the Imperial War Museum’s collection of more than 30,000 British wartime proclamations, all from the First and Second World Wars. “Eat Less Bread,” “Beer: A Necessity to the Strength of Britain,” “The Fight Is Now,” “Fit Men Wanted,” “Victory is in the Kitchen,” “We Need the Woman”: such stirring messages exhorted British citizens to do their bit for the country’s war effort. Today they seem charmingly innocent, quintessentially English, and often very funny, and the posters that bear the slogans are a treasury of vintage graphics. Like the much-loved “Keep Calm and Carry On” poster, these proclamations are just what one needs to keep a stiff upper lip and a sense of humor in our own times.

Author : Sean Price
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN 13 : 9781410931146
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of War written by Sean Price and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2009 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines various aspects of World War II, focusing on how the U.S. and other countries used posters to encourage support of the war effort.

Author : Susannah Walker
Publisher : Shire Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780747811428
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Home Front Posters written by Susannah Walker and published by Shire Publications. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Coughs and Sneezes Spread Diseases to Keep Calm and Carry On, the Home Front posters from the Second World War have become part of British culture. Some were design classics, others more prosaic, but together they give a fascinating insight into the trials and tribulations of living through World War Two. This was the first total war, with civilians as essential to the war effort as soldiers. So posters instructed people on everything from cooking and salvage to how to speak, and even think, about the war. This book tells the story behind these posters: how they were designed and produced, what they wanted to achieve, and what the British public really thought of them. Looking at famous images and forgotten gems, it is essential reading for anyone interested in both life on the Home Front and the design of the times.

Author : Pearl James
Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Picture This written by Pearl James and published by University of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the First World War, mass produced, full colour, large format war posters were both a sign & an instrument of the shift in warfare, signalling the direct involvement of entire populations. This collection considers various aspects of war posters between 1914 & 1918.

Author : Dover Publications, Inc.
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606600958
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book World War One Posters written by Dover Publications, Inc. and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the heyday of poster art comes this choice selection of 100 full-page color reproductions accompanied by detailed captions. Magnificent hardcover edition features posters by Lyendecker, Christy, Flagg, Brangwyn, Steinlen, others.

Author : G. H. Gregory
Publisher : Greene Assoc
ISBN 13 : 9780517093184
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Posters of World War II written by G. H. Gregory and published by Greene Assoc. This book was released on 1993 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection 110 posters, many created by well-known artists and photographers, looks back on life during World War II and features such famous posters as the "Loose Lips Sink Ships" poster and Rockwell's illustrations of the four freedoms.

Author : Great Britain. Ministry of Information
Publisher : Imperial War Museums
ISBN 13 : 9781904897644
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Make Do and Mend written by Great Britain. Ministry of Information and published by Imperial War Museums. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published by the Ministry of Information in 1943"--T.p. verso.

Author : Bex Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781904897347
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Keep Calm and Carry on written by Bex Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "'Keep Calm and Carry On' has become one of the most recognisable slogans of the twenty-first century. But where is it from and why has it resonated so strongly with the modern British public? This book reveals the truth behind the now infamous poster, tracing its origins to the Second World War, when it was created to allay public panic in the event of a German invasion. Of course this feared invasion never happened, and the poster would have been resigned to the dusty shelves of history were it not for a chance discovery by the owners of Barter Books in 2001. Later seized upon as an encouragement in the economic crisis, 'Keep Calm' went on to become arguably the most successful meme in history. This book tells the story of that phenomenon, including colourful posters and archive photographs throughout."--

Author : Peter Darman
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 9781473817319
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Posters of World War II written by Peter Darman and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2011-10-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 200 exciting full-colour posters from World War II, each one accompanied by a caption describing its origins, design and purpose. The posters cover a wide range of topics, such as recruitment, security, finance, food and hygiene. Contains posters sourced from European and U.S. archives, both Axis and Allied, and shows how posters played a vital function in disseminating information to the civilian population.