Dein Suchergebnis zum Thema: Propaganda

In a time when the nation was divided over the issue of slavery, artists helped to shape people’s understandings of the conflict that overtook the nation. Some artists depicted the political figures and events that drove and reflected the conflict. Other artists were on the battlefield itself, bringing the emotional toll of war home in immediate ways.
During the Civil War, the eagle assumed its role as a symbol of the nation in Union propaganda

FAP also came under question politically, as some groups cast it as a producer of propaganda

Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow, May 1–June 30, 2002 German and French Art Propaganda