In this age of wartime tax cuts and "patriotic shopping," the World War II posters of the Kittleson Collection at the Minneapolis Public Library show a very different view of patriotism, cooperation, and conservation than we see during today's wars. Published between 1939 and 1945 (but many of the following are from 1943, when American pocketbooks were stretched thinnest), they represent art from several countries in Europe, including the UK (the last example).
Paul Schmelzer is a writer and editor in Minneapolis. Formerly managing editor of Walker Reader(2011–2020), the Walker Art Center's digital magazine, he is cofounder of The Ostracon, an art writing site created through funds from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Creative Capital's Arts Writers Grant program; creator of Signifier, Signed; a former editor at Adbusters; and contributor to Artforum.com, Cabinet, Huffington Post, Hyperallergic, The Progressive, Raw Vision, Utne,and others.More >>
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imagine the state of the union if we all did this!
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