Posters of World Wars I and II CD-ROM and Book (Dover Full-Color Electronic Design)

Not What I Expected
I have the greatest respect for the Dover company – in general they produce high-quality books, and I own quite a few of them. However, with this book, they missed a great opportunity. This volume reproduces WWI and WWII propaganda posters in spades, but on a very small scale – two posters are printer per page, lengthwise, about 3x5 inches apiece. While the posters are clearly printed, on good quality paper, in full, vivid color, the fact that they are so small takes away some of the fun in looking at them. This book comes with an accompanying CD-ROM so that you can use the posters herein (on a limited basis) in certain projects and, essentially, it seems as though the book is really meant to serve as a catalogue for the CD-ROM. For those who are looking for a good digital reference, this may be useful; those who are looking for a good art book should look elsewhere.

Ideal Teaching Tool
Downloading the CD Rom images is easy and making color copies or transparencies for overhead projections. Using the latter in your classroom will enhance your lessons on the World Wars, especially the broad range samples of Homefront propaganda and culture. The students seeing these poster works in rich colors beats the drab B&W or smaller textbook facsimile inserts. Show it to them while playing a CD recording of George M. Cohan's »Over There« for a real memorable effect! My Eighth graders will surely remember this.

Awesome for teaching
I ordered this book to help me teach my propaganda unit in English 10. It is perfect. I took the disc to Kinkos to make ten posters (the copyright says you can make 10 per project, so Kinkos was willing). They turned out very nice, and my students enjoyed the »propaganda museum« in the hallway. I highly recommend this book for those interested in teaching propaganda, WWI & II history, or just those people who enjoy »vintage« art!

Beautiful Historic Posters
This book is exactly what I expected; a catalog of posters that I can manipulate for my own purposes. I bought this with the thought of printing out posters for a Veteran's Day dinner. Many of these images will be just the ticket for the wide variety of ages who'll see these on display. For some, it'll evoke memories, for many others, it will be the first viewing. I do wish there had been mini-bios on these posters for educational purposes. Many of the pictures romanticize war and military service in ways that would today be viewed as simplistic. Additionally, there are some racist and sexist images that may offend today's viewers. Still, overall, this book is quite comprehensive for my purposes.

• Art
• Art & Art Instruction
• Battles & campaigns
• Clip Art
• Design
• Design & Commercial Art
• Europe
• European history – First World War
• European history – Second World War
• First World War, 1914-1918
• Industrial – commercial art & design
• Military history
• Poster art
• Posters
• Second World War, 1939-1945
• World history – First World War
• World history – Second World War
• World War, 1914-1918
• World War, 1939-1945

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