Rhodes, Anthony, and Margolin, Victor (Editor)
Secaucus, NY: The Wellfleet Press, 1987. Reprint edition. Presumed First Edition, First printing this publisher. Hardcover. The format is approximately 9.125 inches by 12.25 inches. 319, [1] pages. Illustrations (includes color plates). Bibliography. Index. Ink notation on fep. DJ has wear, small tears and soiling. A visual survey of all forms of propaganda used by Allied and Axis powers immediately before and during World War II. Contents include Foreword by Victor Margolin; The Propagation of the Reich, 1933-1945; Mussolini's New Rome, 1922-1945; Britain Improvises, 1936-1945; United States: Isolation and Intervention, 1932-1945; Rule and Resistance in "The New Order," 1936-1945; The Soviet Union: Propaganda for Peace, 1917-1945; The Rise and Fall of Japan, 1931-1945; Afterword by Daniel Lerner; Essay and Filmography by William Murphy;, and Notes on Color Plates by Victor Margolin. Victor Margolin (1941–2019) was an American design historian, researcher and educator. He was a Professor of design history at the University of Illinois, Chicago, where he taught from 1982 until 2006. Margolin published widely and was the founding editor and co-editor of the academic design journal, Design Issues. A major work was his comprehensive World History of Design. In 1972, he published his first two books on design history and design theory, American Poster Renaissance: The Great Age of Poster Design, 1890-1900 (1975) and the edited volume, Propaganda: The Art of Persuasion, WWII (1976). Margolin began teaching art and design history in 1982 at the School of Art and Art History, University of Illinois, Chicago, where he was the first design historian they had hired, and taught there until retiring in 2006. More