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Bibliography

Christophe, Jacques. Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen: l'oeuvre de guerre: oeuvre graphique de 1914 à 1920. Lyon: Aléas, 1999. Link to UIUC catalog

Crawford, Anthony R, ed, with an introduction by O. W. Riegel. Posters of World War I and World War II in the George C. Marshall Research Foundation. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1979. Section on WWI, p 6-9. Link to UIUC catalog

Darracott, Joseph and Belinda Loftus. First World War Posters. [London]: Imperial War Museum, 1972. Contains images of five French posters by five different artists, including one Steinlen. Link to UIUC catalog

Gervereau, Laurent and Christophe Prochasson, eds. Images de 1917. Paris: Musee de Histoire Contemporain and Editions Germinal, 1987. Mainly a catalog of images. Link to UIUC catalog

Holman, Valerie and Debra Kelly, eds. France at War in the Twentieth Century: Propaganda, Myth and Metaphor. New York: Berghan Books, 2000. Introduction and first chapter address propaganda as a whole and the context of WWI. Link to UIUC catalog

Kahn, Elizabeth Louise. The neglected majority : "les camoufleurs," art history, and World War I. Lanham, MD : University Press of America, c1984. Link to UIUC catalog

Les Affiches de la Grande Guerre. Peronne, Somme: Historial de la Grande Guerre, 1998. Color prints of French posters with essays. Link to UIUC catalog

Lasswell, Harold Dwight. Propaganda technique in WorldWarI. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1971. Link to UIUC catalog

Lewis, Beth Irwin, Peter Paret and Paul Paret. Persuasive Images: Posters of War and Revolution from the Hoover Institution Archives. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. Many color reproductions and a series of short explanatory texts on the WWI posters. Link to UIUC catalog

Read, James Morgan. Atrocity Propaganda 1914-1919. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1941. Contains no images. Link to UIUC catalog

Rickards, Maurice. Posters of the First World War. London: Evelyn, Adams and Mackay Ltd, 1968. Most of the posters in the book are English, German or American, but does contain a list of artists from each country whose posters were discussed. Link to UIUC catalog

Sherman, Daniel J. The Construction of Memory in Interwar France. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. Compares war memorial statuary and others to posters, history of posters in visual memory. Link to UIUC catalog

Timmers, Margaret, ed. The Power of the Poster. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1998. Two essays on political posters. Link to UIUC catalog

What did you do in the war Daddy?: A Visual History of Propaganda Posters. A selection from the Australian War Memorial. Introduction by Peter Stanley. Melbourne: Oxford
University Press, 1983. Eleven-page introduction and many color reprints. Link to UIUC catalog

 
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