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22 de mar. de 2024 · The iconic phrase, “Uncle Sam, I Want You,” has become a part of American culture, symbolizing a call to duty and patriotism. This iconic image, featuring Uncle Sam pointing directly at the viewer, was first used during the First World War and has since been turned into a rallying cry for military recruitment.
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Four million copies of the poster were quickly printed and plastered onto walls and signposts from Maine to California. Within weeks, just about every American citizen had seen it. Flagg, who had been working as a commercial artist since the age of 12 and was a regular contributor to Life and the satirical Judgemagazine, was only too happy to lend ...
Interestingly enough, Flagg’s quintessentially American image was a crib of a British drawing from three years earlier. The original appeared in a 1914 edition of the British magazine London Opinion. It featured a grim looking Lord Kitchener urging Britons to enlist in the army. This drawing, by Alfred Leete, would itself be adapted into a famous r...
The Sam image quickly vanished from public following the 1918 Armistice and Flagg carried on with his successful career as a magazine illustrator. During the interwar period, he composed art for a number of advertising and publishing clients and even sketched celebrities of the day like prizefighter Jack Dempsey and actress Ethel Barrymore. His lik...
En resumen, el cartel "I want you for U.S. Army" es una pieza icónica de la historia del reclutamiento militar. Su diseño único y su mensaje directo lo convirtieron en una herramienta efectiva para atraer nuevos reclutas durante la Primera Guerra Mundial.
El Tío Sam, nombrado en su canción U.S. Blues, es uno más entre otros elementos que componen la "American mythology" de este grupo. En septiembre de 1979, la banda Funkadelic publicó un álbum bajo el nombre Uncle Jam Wants You, uno de los más exitosos de la banda.
5 de abr. de 2017 · BBC Mundo. 5 abril 2017. Biblioteca del Congreso de EE.UU. El afiche del Tío Sam cumple 100 años este mes. Hace 100 años, apareció por primera vez una de las imágenes que se convertiría en uno de...
Hace 2 días · Mr. Capozzola is the author of Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen (Oxford University Press, 2008). Sitting in his Manhattan studio on a summer day in...
3 de abr. de 2017 · The Uncle Sam ‘I Want YOU’ poster is 100 years old. Almost everything about it was borrowed. By Travis M. Andrews. April 3, 2017 at 4:22 a.m. EDT. James Montgomery Flagg’s familiar Uncle...
