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Retrosi
Description - design: the image a Gorgon (as a gross caricature of Kaiser Wilhelm II and the personification of the evils
of War) is used in PST/5626, l'INNOCENTEdesign Gorgon, head, full face. The bloodied head is transfixed diagonally by a short sword. Skulls
and coins are disgorged from its gaping mouth
text: "IL VOLTO = = DELLA = GUERRA" (three lines, lower right corner)
whole MODEL
Exhibition caption: "The artist's cynical view of war as the Gorgon, regurgitating both money - the rewards of war
profiteers - and the skulls of the lives she has devoured"
Postcard artwork for: "Il Volto della Guerra", Virgilio Retrosi, IWM PCD 0003 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Italian Home Front & 1915 = 1918 satirical propaganda | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Retrosi, Virgilio | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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