Accuracy Makes Bad Propaganda
The trouble with America's World War I artists
Soon after America entered World War I, the War Department sought American artists to embed with the American Expeditionary Forces in France.
The artists would be asked to create artistic scenes from the war that would be both historically accurate, yet serve propaganda purposes. Their works would be sent back to Washington…
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