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Analyze an existing artwork/project/piece of media (TV show, game, etc) and the systems within which it operates. Try to identify: Who created it? For whom? With what materials and metaphors? With what intention? What impact? On whom? How? Did the artist identify a public or create a counterpublic?

 

Poster:

I chose to do the “We Can Do It” art poster that was made during World War II. This was a time where men where shipped off to fight the war against Germany and their allies. While the men fought, women took on “male” jobs (ie; defense industries, the civilian service, armed forces). Even after the war, the men returned and wanted their jobs back. Women wanted to work, and continue to work even after the men returned. The poster was created by J. Howard Miller in 1943. It symbolizes that women can work any job without losing their femininity, which the poster shows as a metaphor. The target audience would have been young women that were able to hard labor.

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