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Usage of colour and slogan in war propaganda posters

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2017
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The posters which prepared to announce an event or new in terms of social, political, economic, artistic and cultural aspects have become a factor that can affect history together with the World WarI.During the war, the reasons for the war, the situation of the people, the enemy's strategies, etc., shed light on the target groups.Symbolic communication has been established through the colors that provide the flow of the poster since ancient times.Different geographies and different cultures give different meanings to the colors that have been diversified since the first humans. Propaganda is sometimes associated with political facts. Posters have a very important influence in the propaganda process.This method has also been used frequently in World WarsI. and II. Transformation of propaganda into an influentialweapon through the poster'smanagement and its presentation to the people who have different languages, races anddifferent cultural backgrounds show the ability of affection to different cultures at the same time.Therefore, the main symbolic items are preferred in posters. We tried to examine the colors and slogans that used during the construction of posters which are a propaganda tool in our work. In this process, books and periodicals written about the propaganda of war have been examined as a resource, posters of war propaganda have been reached from different internet sources and posters have been tried to be analyzed in terms of color and slogans.

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Seval Alkoç

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Seval Alkoç (Master Thesis). Usage of colour and slogan in war propaganda posters, 2017, İstanbul Arel University.

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