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If you have been around Japan any amount of time, or a just a Japan history aficionado back home, you have probably read about the Perry Expedition of 1853 to open the "closed country" of Japan to ...

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Who's absent? Is it you?. LOC Summary: Poster showing John Bull pointing and addressing the viewer, with burning buildings and a line of soldiers with gaps in the background. LOC Notes: Poster no. 125. Date Created/Published: London : Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, 1915. WWI recruitment poster provided by LOC.

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Watch Interplanetary Revolution (1924): The Most Bizarre Soviet Animated Propaganda Film You’ll Ever See

In 1924, Zenon Komisarenko, Youry Merkulov and Nikolai Khodataev produced Interplanetary Revolution, which might just be one of the strangest Soviet propaganda films ever produced.

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Winsor McCay's animated propaganda: The Sinking of the Lusitania

(This post was originally published on the sadly now-defunct site The Cinementals.) After the phenomenal success of Gertie the Dinosaur (1914), cartoonist Winsor McCay realized that he had found hi...

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Winsor McCay Animates the Sinking of the Lusitania in a Beautiful Propaganda Film (1918)

You might know Winsor McCay (1867? -1934) for the gorgeously surreal Little Nemo comic strip or for his early animated short Gertie the Dinosaur (1914). But did you know that he also created some of the earliest examples of animated propaganda ever?

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Industrial printing revolution

It’s six in the morning on November 29, 1814, and London’s Fleet Street is beginning to fill with the cacophony of commerce. But the rows of hand-pulled presses at the London Times, hardly changed …

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Baroque Art Movement

1600 – 1725 How to identify Baroque art? 1. Landscape paintings (e.g. Sunrise in a Wood by Jacob Van Ruisdael) 2. General Still Lifes (e.g. Still-Life with Fruits, Shells and Insects by Balthasar van der Ast) 3. Still Lifes of … Continue reading →

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The patronage of the Roman Catholic Church was fundamental to the Baroque style. Promoted by generations of popes, cardinals, priests, missionaries, worshippers and lay-patrons, the style spread to the four corners of the globe.

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Propaganda: The Art of Persuasion- Anthony Rhodes  

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The History of German Animation (DVD)

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