Art Paper essays

Art Paper essays I was able to examine Life Magazine issue: July 2, 1945. This issue was very interesting to examine because it exhibited many things we discussed in class and talked about in the book lifes America. In this Life magazine issue however I found one major theme that was expressed. This particular issue stressed heavily on the ideas of World War 2. This issue of Life magazine pushed to promote the war in anyway it could. There was not a single page in this issue that did not mention World War 2. Also, in conjunction to this theme of war I also found this issue to feed heavily on the ideas of nationalism. The whole issue was built upon the ideas that World War 2 is a good thing. Also, this issue gave me the impression that America is quote unquote the best while the rest of the countries especially Germany (a World War 2 rival) is inferior to us, so in other words other countries especially Germany cannot in anyway compete with America, they are below us! According to Wendy Kozols book Lifes America Life magazine was a big magazine to fuel support for World War 2. Propaganda was seen as the main focus of this vary issue. Kozol states in her book that Lifes photojournalistic formula relied heavily on the images of the middleclass family, to represent our national culture as a perfect whole. Also, in reflection to this vary issue I feel strongly that Kozols ideas are right on. This other quote from her book also supports my perceptions of this Life issue. Kozol states that the Ideas of nationalism, a powerful but contradictory cultural force that indeed shapes our social identities that construct a popular/democratic arena of shared interests and objectives. So in simpler terms Kozol is saying that Life magazine is v ...