World War I and American Art
Hardcover
2016 · Philadelphia
by Cozzolino, Robert et al.
Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts / Princeton University Press, 2016. Hardcover. As New. Red cloth/boards; black and blind-stamp lettering. Color-illus. dj with black lettering on yellow spine. 320 pp. with color plates throughout. This is the first major book to examine the repercussions of the Great War on American art. Featuring first-rate scholarship in accessible prose, the book shows how this traumatic conflict had a profound effect on American visual culture, yielding not just memorable propaganda posters, but also art that subtly acknowledged the war.---Cecile Whiting, author of Pop L.A.: Art and the City in the 1960s; published on conjunction with the exhibition helad at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, November 2016 to April 2017 and at The New York Historical Society, May 26 to September 2017. (Inventory #: 160157)