Shows how American artists, photographers, and graphic designers helped to shape public perceptions about World War I. This book considers how flag-based patriotic imagery prompted Americans to intervene in Europe in 1917, and contemplates the corrosive effects of the war on soldiers who lost their faces on the battlefield.
"Basing its arguments on considerable research, Flags and Faces asks us to reconsider American visual culture at a critical modernist moment, in light of the Great War. This is vintage Lubin: freewheeling, incredibly smart, and hugely inventive."-E. Bruce Robertson, Professor, Historyof Art and Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara
"David Lubin's characteristically forceful and lucid approach to the interpretation of American visual culture during times of stress is on full display in Flags and Faces. The book's correlation of male faces damaged by war with the 1920s cult of the ideal female face (on film and elsewhere) is particularly ingenious and convincing."-Hollis Clayson, Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities, Northwestern University
"An interesting and brief introduction to America's visual culture in the context of World War I."
