Picture This: World War I Posters and Visual Culture Gift the Smithsonian American Art Museum

the Smithsonian American Art Museum and Plimoth Plantation

both famous and lesser-known authors

especially in the bitter last days of the war

The home-front life—factory work

by Robert Graves

Picture This: World War I Posters and Visual Culture Gift the Smithsonian American Art MuseumDescription edited by Pearl James Paperback The First World War was waged through the participation not just of soldiers but of men, women, and children on the home front. Mass produced, full color, large format war posters were both a sign and an instrument of this historic shift in warfare. War posters celebrated, in both their form and content, the modernity of the conflict. They also reached an enormous international audience through their