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Description: The Guardian of the Home (La Gardienne de Foyer)

TitleThe Guardian of the Home (La Gardienne de Foyer)

Creator nameMarchand, Jean

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation datec. 1915

Creation date (description)March

Object typePrint

MaterialsUnknown

LocationReproduced in L’Elan, no. 3, March 1915

SubjectsWorld War, 1914-1918Knitting in artPatriotism in art

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V. Fluctuat nec mergitur

Kenneth E. Silver

Description: Esprit de Corps: The Art of the Parisian Avant-Garde and the First World War,...

Esprit de Corps: The Art of the Parisian Avant-Garde and the First World War, 1914–1925

IF THE IDEOLOGICAL PROGRAM of French wartime propaganda was fashioned mostly from half-truths, misconceptions, stereotypes, and, when necessary, outright lies, the destruction of the homeland at the hands of the invader was a visible fact. It was convenient and even amusing to invent a “Fritz” and...

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Kenneth E. Silver

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.186-218

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-32218&redirecttoanchor=112905

Chapter subject tags:Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--France--History--20th centuryNationalism and art--France--History--20th centuryArt and society--France--Paris--20th centuryWorld War, 1914-1918--AtrocitiesArchitecture, French--20th centuryReconstruction (1914-1939)--FranceWorld War, 1914-1918--PropagandaMatisse, Henri, 1869-1954Bergson, Henri, 1859-1941

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