{"id":8007,"date":"2016-09-16T19:24:47","date_gmt":"2016-09-17T00:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=8007"},"modified":"2016-09-16T19:24:47","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T00:24:47","slug":"war-of-words-on-display-in-levitt-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/8007","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;War of Words&#8217; on display in Levitt Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2016\/09\/Image1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-8008\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2016\/09\/Image1-200x150.jpg\" alt=\"Image1\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2016\/09\/Image1-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2016\/09\/Image1-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2016\/09\/Image1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2016\/09\/Image1-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2016\/09\/Image1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>By Alyssa Nehring&#8211;<\/strong>John Fender, graphic design professor at Drake University, curated an exhibit showing a collection of World War II propaganda posters from the State Historical Museum of Iowa. Morningside is currently showing a smaller version of that exhibit called War of Words.<\/p>\n<p>Fender presented his research and the exhibit Thursday, Sept. 15. \u201cThese posters serve as an outline to the social changes happening at the time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the posters often exploited the emotions of the general public by selling the idea of patriotism. The goal of these posters was not to sell the war but rather to give information causing the general public to be willing to join in the war efforts.<\/p>\n<p>However, as Fender said the posters were often untrusted and people felt manipulated. This is because \u201ca lot of these posters often hid the harsh realities of war under pictures and slogans,\u201d he\u00a0explained.<\/p>\n<p>The posters quickly changed after Pearl Harbor. The message quickly changed from selling patriotism to propaganda. For example, the poster included\u00a0with this article was originally supposed to be printed with the slogan \u201cIt Takes Both Barrels\u201d but after the bombing it was changed to have a more aggressive headline, \u201cGive \u2018em Both Barrels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That poster and many others and their stories can be seen in the Eppley Art Gallery from now until October 6, Monday through Saturday 12- 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alyssa Nehring&#8211;John Fender, graphic design professor at Drake University, curated an exhibit showing a collection of World War II propaganda posters from the State Historical Museum of Iowa. Morningside is currently showing a smaller version of that exhibit called War of Words. Fender presented his research and the exhibit Thursday, Sept. 15. \u201cThese posters&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":8008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8009,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8007\/revisions\/8009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}