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In four pages this paper presents a comparative analysis of posters that were designed during the two world wars, considers specific designers and examples of their work, and discusses the influences that led to shifting approaches. Five sources are listed in the bibliography.
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military and to remind citizens of their responsibilities on the home front while men are off to war. Naturally, during World War I and World War II, the U.S.
and its foreign counterparts commissioned designers to create posters that contained subliminal government messages of recruitment, and the need for citizen participation to further the cause of freedom. During
the lengthy Second World War conflict, the importance of product rationing was emphasized. The times in which these wars were fought were quite different; therefore, it comes as no
surprise that the designers approaches and imagery would also be different as well. For more than two decades prior to the U.S. involvement in World War I, the
poster was an integral part of American consumer culture. During the U.S. nineteenth-month participation in the First World War, nearly 1500 posters were designed by the Division of Pictorial
Publicity (Alexander 1992). The Society of Illustrators, which was established in 1901, was responsible for U.S. government poster design and included the most accomplished designers of the time, including
C.B. Falls, Joseph Pennell, James Montgomery Flagg, and Howard Chandler Christy (Inge 1989). They were originally hired to publicize war bond drives, armed forces volunteer recruitment, and raising much-needed
funds for the Red Cross (Inge 1989). Although World War I is believed to be the beginning of artistic modernism, the romantic sentiments of the Victorian era were also
quite evident in the designers approaches to their poster subjects. This is certainly apparent in the most famous of the war posters, James Montgomery Flaggs poster of Uncle Sam
(created in the designers own image) pointing to the viewer and declaring, "I Want You for the U.S. Army" (Alexander 1992, p. 100). Its message was simple and spoke
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