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Picasso Painted Guernica And Attributed It To The Nazis

Picasso Painted Guernica And Attributed It To The Nazis

Can art be a weapon? When the Nazis bombed Guernica, Pablo Picasso went to work... ...
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When The Jazz Ambassadors Brought American Racism to The USSR

When The Jazz Ambassadors Brought American Racism to The USSR

In 1956, the US State Department created the Jazz Ambassadors program, hiring American jazz musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, and Duke Ellington to be "ambassadors" for the United States overseas. ...
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Bring Me the Head of Louis Raemaekers – The Art of War

Bring Me the Head of Louis Raemaekers – The Art of War

The Dutch artist whose biting cartoons forced people and countries to act ...
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Machinalia : Boris Artzybasheff’s Fantastic Visions of Living Machines

Machinalia : Boris Artzybasheff’s Fantastic Visions of Living Machines

Boris Artzybasheff's surreal anthropomorphic creations ...
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Rare Color Photos from the German Front During World War I

Rare Color Photos from the German Front During World War I

Photography and modern warfare grew up, side by side, on battlefields, burial grounds, and in the trenches and ruined European cities of World War I. In France, German photographer Hans Hildenbrand took what are some of the few color photographs of the front lines. ...
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How Mussolini Won the Propaganda War: 1922-1943

How Mussolini Won the Propaganda War: 1922-1943

The art of indoctrination - how political propagandists tried to on shape the 20th century into “a Fascist century” ...
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Josef Skvorecky Recites The Nazis 10 Rules To Combat Jazz

Josef Skvorecky Recites The Nazis 10 Rules To Combat Jazz

Jazz was entartete musik (“degenerate music”), or as Nazi spin doctor Joseph Goebbels put it, jazz was "jungle music" ...
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London Library Miraculously Survives Blitz (1940)

London Library Miraculously Survives Blitz (1940)

On the evening of 27 September, 1940, Germany bombed London's Holland House. But they missed the books ...
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How WWI Propaganda Posters Sold the War to Americans and Helped Invent the Modern Ad Industry

How WWI Propaganda Posters Sold the War to Americans and Helped Invent the Modern Ad Industry

'The manipulators of patriotic opinion made use of the mental clichés and the emotional habits of the public to produce mass reactions against the alleged atrocities, the terror and the tyranny of the enemy' - Edward Bernays ...
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61 Sensational Soviet Space Posters

61 Sensational Soviet Space Posters

In the 1950s and 1960s the Soviet Union assured the great unwashed that ploughing fortunes into the space race was good for them ...
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Is This Tomorrow? A Red Scare Comic Book from 1947

Is This Tomorrow? A Red Scare Comic Book from 1947

In 1947 the Catechetical Guild Educational Society in St. Paul, Minnesota put out this warning ...
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Behind Painted Smiles: Depression Era Billboards

Behind Painted Smiles: Depression Era Billboards

Behind the painted smiles on the ubiquitous billboards erected by The National Association of Manufacturers ...
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