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Description:
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The Wolfsonian?Florida International University?s renowned collection of political propaganda from the United States and Europe forms the framework for the show, which highlights the posters, housewares, and even children?s books and games that inundated the lives of ordinary citizens. During the first half of the twentieth century the great political powers waged two world wars. Leaders of the combatant nations exhorted their citizens to make monumental sacrifices to hasten victory. Both government agencies and private organizations used powerful visual weapons to evoke feelings of fear and anger, pride and patriotism. Weapons of Mass Dissemination presents a historic portrait of wartime culture, and at the same time demonstrates how many of the strategies of propaganda used a half century ago continue to pervade our lives today.
This exhibition consists of approximately 72 posters, 34 decorative objects, 47 works of ephemera, and 11 books. A catalogue accompanies the exhibition.
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