Word: posterity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Poster propaganda of two wars and prints inspired by six wars are among the five exhibit problems solved and presented by the Museum Class in the second-floor galleries of Fogg Art Museum...
Modern war posters lack some artistic value, an explanatory booklet says, because subjects have been regulated by usually unartistic officials, but forceful symbolism makes them more striking than those of the last war when poster art was young...
...that many prominent European artists were searching their subconscious minds, recording and treasuring their dream impressions, practicing a hundred ingenious methods of outwitting their everyday sense of logic. Some of the queer things they turned up made their way into more popular forms of art, influenced things like 'poster design...
...from thinking the Army's haste unseemly, wished last week that General DeWitt would move them faster, before they starve. In San Francisco's Little Tokyo, store fronts were plastered with huge signs, proclaiming: "Evacuation Sale." In one window, under the sign, hung a red-white-&-blue poster: "God Bless America, the Land We Love." Under that, another sign: "Twenty Percent...
...thumb-in a hospital and in two prisons, in Occupied France. They got loose and back to London. For three weeks, in the notorious Cherche-Midi prison in Paris, they experienced solitary confinement, bedbugs, thoughts about suicide. Their jailmates were in for such crimes as tearing down a Nazi poster; firing a cook (who promptly denounced her mistress to the Nazis); saying sales Bodies (two years); helping Polish suspects escape from Paris (20 years). One night Bessy heard a man being terribly beaten up. He was a German soldier. He had criticized the Army...