There's an uncomfortable timeliness to the Smithsonian American Art Museum's "Over the Top: American Posters From World War I." Falling somewhere between publicity and propaganda, these images from 1917 to 1919 were designed, for the most part, to sell war bonds. In a larger sense, they were adve... -
Nothing Subtle in the Art of War
There's an uncomfortable timeliness to the Smithsonian American Art Museum's "Over the Top: American Posters From World War I." Falling somewhere between publicity and propaganda, these images from 1917 to 1919 were designed, for the most part, to sell war bonds. In a larger sense, they were adve...-
By Michael O'Sullivan