Though it didn’t enter World War I until 1917, the United States produced more posters in support of mobilization and civilian service than any other country. The government established a Department of Pictorial Publicity with 300 artists who were ordered to “draw until it hurts.”
The backlash fifty years later against the Vietnam War included the co-opting by activists of propaganda posters. They substituted anti-military themes, often featuring the slogan, “Make Love, Not War.”
Joan Baez and her sisters Mimi and Pauline posed for a poster challenging the popular notion that refusing to serve was cowardly or unmanly. Their message, that liberated women would have sex with draft dodgers, perhaps recalls the heroine Lysistrata, who organized a chastity movement among Greek wives to force peace negotiations.
Make love not war, boys! The ultimate enemies to lovers!
Even in the Rebellion, they butt heads with each other. Angry eyes, bared sharp teeth… could be all the ~tension~ in the air between them. Maybe they need to release some of that tension, and not by brawling, if you know what I mean. XD
Leonardo Da Vinci, The proportions of the human body according to Vitruvius, 1490 VS Gerald Holtom, Peace sign (originally logo for the British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament), 1958
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![Karin Sverenius Holm (1950-2017)—Make Love, Not war [oil, canvas, 1971]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/88d2212c6bf89f93e1724af8066e50ca/027b1912e4fe5f06-ad/s1280x1920/ceaf1aa4b2672afd58cf7c52f4a1cd6d064a7b40.jpg "Karin Sverenius Holm (1950-2017)—Make Love, Not war [oil, canvas, 1971]")
