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Your Country Needs YOU: The Secret History of the Propaganda Poster
Author(s): James Taylor (Author)
- Publisher: Saraband, Inc
- Publication Date: 29 Aug. 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 156 pages
- ISBN-10: 1887354972
- ISBN-13: 9781887354974
Book Description
The iconic image by Alfred Leete of Lord Kitchener with outstretched hand and finger, exhorting you to ‘do your bit’, is a design classic and has been repeatedly imitated worldwide. In the run-up to the World War I anniversary, Your Country Needs YOU celebrates the magnificent artwork of Leete and his fellow designers, and explores their legacy. Featuring colour reproductions of propaganda posters and drawing on fresh analysis of the archives, this book challenges received historical wisdom about these hugely popular and enduring images, and reveals a surprising new history that is no less than groundbreaking.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘Well-illustrated…a thoroughly researched text…explodes some myths’ –History Today, Oct 2013
‘Wonderful… a work that will fascinate.’ –BBC History magazine.
‘A splendid little book… [with] magnificent illustrations.’ –The Spectator.
About the Author
James Taylor is the author of Careless Talk Costs Lives (a study of World War II propaganda artist Fougasse), and several other art history books and articles for specialist magazines. He is an art historian who has worked at Phillips Fine Art Auctioneers and as a curator at the National Maritime Museum. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, he lives in Hampshire.
