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Dell "War Books" such as #26, The Raft and #32, This Time For Keeps, had back covers which exhorted the reader to "Buy War Bonds and Stamps", as did books of jokes and cartoons such as #38, Liberty Laughs and #77, G.I. Jokes. The rarest mapback of all is #278, Second Dell Book of Crossword Puzzles edited by Kathleen Rafferty, also map-less.
War depictions in film and television include documentaries, TV mini-series, and drama serials depicting aspects of historical wars, the films included here are films set in the Ancient world starting with Ancient Egypt and lasting until the fall of the Western Roman Empire in about AD 476. Note: All wars are BC unless other wise noted.
John Henry Alvin (November 24, 1948 [1] – February 6, 2008) [2] was an American cinematic artist and painter who illustrated many movie posters. [2] Alvin created posters and key art [1] for more than 135 films, beginning with the poster for Mel Brooks's Blazing Saddles (1974). [2]
Official war artists have been appointed by governments for information or propaganda purposes and to record events on the battlefield; [2] but there are many other types of war artist. A war artist will have depicted some aspect of war through art; this might be a pictorial record or it might commemorate how war shapes lives. [3]
Representative works by Canada's artists whose work illustrates and records war are gathered into the extensive collection of the Canadian War Museum. The earliest war art in Canada was rock art created by Indigenous peoples from all regions of the country. [82] During the colonial period, large-scale, European-style paintings of war dominated ...
World War I very largely confirmed the end of the glorification of war in art, which had been in decline since the end of the previous century. [43] In general, and despite the establishment of large schemes employing official war artists , the most striking art depicting the war is that emphasizing its horror.
Jung selected Howard Terpning to illustrate his concept art for the 1967 re-release of Gone with the Wind. [8] Taking a cue from the original movie poster art, Jung's iconic pose is often imitated, most notably in the style A poster for The Empire Strikes Back. "I see the results of my design all over," he said.
During World War II he worked as a technical artist at North American Aviation. There he met his wife, fellow artist Mary Louise Tejeda . Following the war Brown drew numerous advertisements and illustrations for magazines such as Argosy , Popular Science , Saturday Evening Post , Boys' Life , Outdoor Life , and Popular Aviation .