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JEAN CARLU (1900-1997)
GIVE 'EM BOTH BARRELS. 1941.
30x40 1/2 inches, 76x102 3/4 cm. U.S. Government Printing Office, [Washington, D.C.] Condition B+: restoration along sharp crease in lower right image; unobtrusive vertical and horizontal folds; minor repaired tears and restoration in margins.
In 1939, while still in France, Carlu designed a poster promoting the "Anglo-French Day for the benefit of the combatants and their families," featuring two soldiers in profile, a theme which he clearly replicated in this 1941 poster, but with far more effect and impact. "A visual analogy is found between a machine gun and a rivet-gun" (Word & Image p. 61), driving home the connection between homefront workers and front-line soldiers. This is the larger of two formats. Carlu 50, Design for Victory p. 29, Word & Image p. 61, Modern American 46, IWM II p. 24, Modern Poster 195, Judd 4.7, Nelson p. 65, Pollack pl. 243, Rhodes p. 151.
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