Gen: Is it propaganda or art?

[edward nizalowski <enizalowski@NVCS.STIER.ORG>]

Hello,
        I wanted to let you know about something I did in conjunction with a
class reading Animal Farm.  I started off looking for posters that promoted
the Russian Revolution to share with the class.  I found websites that had
Chinese, Cuban and Eastern European posters as well.  I then added American
posters and Nazi posters from World War II.  I incorporated a number of
these into a powerpoint presentation with some questions for the students to
answer to help them focus on ways to judge these particular works.  It
worked out well as a way of teaching one aspect of media literacy.  I wanted
to pass on these websites to you:

Revolutionary Posters
http://www.iisg.nl/exhibitions/chairman/
Eastern European Posters
http://www.crosswinds.net/~russ_posters/
Posters from Revolutionary Russia
http://www.fbuch.com/posters.htm
Polish Posters
http://www.autry-museum.org/calendar/oct/ppimg.html
Nazi Posters
http://www.uncp.edu/home/rwb/hst430_w.htm
Posters from the WPA
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaposters/about.html
Posters from World War II
http://www.nara.gov/exhall/powers/powers.html

Ed Nizalowski, SMS
Newark Valley High School
Newark Valley, NY
enizalowski@nvcs.stier.org

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