VISD 2B09 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3.1 : Raised Fist, David Lubin, George Orwell
2 Feb 2016
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David lubin- losing sight: war, authority, and blindness in british and american visual cultures, 1914- 1922. Josef stalin"s moustache was notoriously large as hitler was tiny. The moustache was an ideal and became a symbol of national virility. George orwell turned the chauvinistic militarism he had when he was. American and british recruitment posters excite fantasies of mastery. War requires the acts of blinding of the enemy and oneself. Kitchener suffered from wandering eyes younger to insidious government intrusions and fear of emasculation. Represents strength, authority and focus pictorial space: coveyed by its scowling gaze, clenched fist, enlarged moustache, clenched fist and foreshortened index finger perforates the, feminist scholar melissa hall analysed the authoritarian nature of. You captures the viewers as a specific subject of address. Simple and direct, exactly what the great britain intended the poster: one of the first mass- produced advertisement to sell a product, freudian"s perspective (enlistment in this case)
