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When Art Kept 'Em Flying - A Celebration of American Aviation Artists and Their Contribution in World War Two (Hardcover)
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When Art Kept 'Em Flying - A Celebration of American Aviation Artists and Their Contribution in World War Two (Hardcover)
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In 1944 George Grod, a strip cartoon, modeling and aviation
enthusiast, discovered with amazement some American magazines which
an MP billeted near his village lent him. What he liked best were
the gleaming advertisements scattered throughout the pages. In the
eighties, during an"old papers" fair, George came across some old
numbers of Life Magazine and from there he started an unbridled
search for original magazines dating back to between 1942 and 1945.
Now presented in this single volume, we see the return of all his
great themes - aviation, kits, cartoon strips, the love of art and
even the cinema. The book is not just a collection of beautiful
pictures all strung together or a sample from a huge collection; it
is above all the testimonial of a period, the reflection of that
immense war effort the American people made during the last World
War, seen through the kaleidoscope of publicity and propoganda. It
is also a tribute to the most glamorous of our liberators. George
Grod worked alongside great film-makers like Verneuil, Minnelli,
Zinnemann, Lumet and Zanuck before working on the television series
les Dossiers Noirs with his friend Jean-Michel Charlier who took
part later in the Grands Maitres de la BD (Grand Masters of the
Cartoon Strip) which he created for the Visiteurs de Mercredi
(Wednesday's visitors). This book is a must for anyone interested
in art, history or World War II; an impressive edition to anyone's
collection.
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