Reception before lecture at 5:30pm

This lecture will examine the emergence of the illustrated poster in French state culture during the Great War. Le Men considers the pictorial rhetoric of war posters and the construction of propaganda imagery through the use of recurring themes, notably the figure of the heroic soldier.


Join the speaker for a graduate and faculty workshop on the exhibition “Cathédrales 1789-1914: Un mythe moderne”
Friday, October 3, 2014
12-2pm
Thayer Building, Osterman Commons, 1st floor
Lunch provided. Please RSVP by September 30 to emtalbot@umich.edu

Sponsored by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, the Department of the History of Art, Nineteenth-Century Forum, University of Michigan Museum of Art, and the International Institute