Aug 06, 2014 - Sale 2356

Sale 2356 - Lot 41

Price Realized: $ 1,152
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
LAURA BREY (DATES UNKNOWN) ENLIST / ON WHICH SIDE OF THE WINDOW ARE YOU? 1917.
39x26 inches, 99x66 cm. National Printing & Eng. Co., Chicago.
Condition B+: minor loss in top margin; tears, repaired tears and abrasion in margins; creases in margins and image; tape on verso. Paper.
A young man in a suit (perhaps a student) is watching a column of soldiers marching past his window. "The window--a poster within the poster--separates the bright male world of waving flags and marching columns from the darkened interior feminine space . . . [exploiting] men's anxiety over their masculinity by suggesting the effeminacy of the man who does not enlist" (Paret p. 56). Paret 75, Rawls p. 82, Theofiles 10, Borkan p. 44, Picture This fig. 48.