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[Anti-Nazi propaganda poster depicting Hitler as a snake charmer playing a tune for snakes in top hats, which are rising out of a basket labeled "Fascisti Repubblicani"] / [United States Office of War Information].
1943-1945
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Monsters and Machines
This selection focuses on the bestiary’s particular vigor in the visual satire of the period from the onset of World War I through the end of the Cold War —what historian Eric Hobsbawm called “the age of extremes” — a time of ideologically-fueled hostilities of unprecedented scale and destructive consequence that eventually brought humanity to the brink of self-annihilation.
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- Language
- Italian
- Subject
- Hitler, Adolf 1889-1945—Caricatures and cartoons
- Fascism—Italy—History—20th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Anti-Nazi propaganda—Italy—History—20th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- World War, 1939-1945—Campaigns—Italy—History—Caricatures and cartoons
- Propaganda—Italy—History—20th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Anti-fascist movements—Italy—Propaganda—History—20th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Posters
- Caricatures
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