{"id":90,"date":"2017-03-15T11:55:39","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T15:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/wwiposters\/?p=90"},"modified":"2017-04-26T10:59:39","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T14:59:39","slug":"i-want-you-for-u-s-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/wwiposters\/2017\/03\/i-want-you-for-u-s-army\/","title":{"rendered":"I Want You For U.S. Army"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_91\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91\" style=\"width: 759px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-91 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/wwiposters\/files\/2017\/03\/I-Want-You-for-the-US-Army-759x1024.jpg\" width=\"759\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/wwiposters\/files\/2017\/03\/I-Want-You-for-the-US-Army-759x1024.jpg 759w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/wwiposters\/files\/2017\/03\/I-Want-You-for-the-US-Army-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/wwiposters\/files\/2017\/03\/I-Want-You-for-the-US-Army-768x1037.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/wwiposters\/files\/2017\/03\/I-Want-You-for-the-US-Army.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 759px) 100vw, 759px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-91\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The famous James Montgomery Flagg &#8220;I Want You&#8221; Army recruitment poster, from Gary Borkan posters, as part of Lifelines story on recruitment posters. Photo by Gary Borkan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b><i>I Want You For U.S. Army,<\/i><\/b> 1917<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">James Montgomery Flagg (American, 1877-1960)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Lithograph on paper<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Miami University Art Museum purchase<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Of the 46 posters J.M. Flagg produced during World War I, none rivaled the popularity of <i>I Want You For U.S. Army.<\/i> In fact, Flagg\u2019s poster is one of the most iconic images in all of American poster art. His Uncle Sam became the new standard for the national personification. Little known is that Flagg used his own visage in lieu of a model, aging himself and adding the emblematic goatee. Four million copies of his Uncle Sam were printed for posters, magazines and newspapers. Within a month, nearly every American saw the poster. Flagg\u2019s design stood out amidst the crowd of other posters through the simple, yet confrontational nature of the design. The image was inspired by Alfred Leete\u2019s 1914 poster depicting Lord Kitchener, the British Secretary of State of War, above the words \u201cwants you,\u201d pointing at the viewer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/wwiposters\/gallery\/posters\/\">Return To Gallery<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>I Want You For U.S. Army, 1917 James Montgomery Flagg (American, 1877-1960) Lithograph on paper Miami University Art Museum purchase Of the 46 posters J.M. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/wwiposters\/2017\/03\/i-want-you-for-u-s-army\/\" title=\"I Want You For U.S. Army\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2064,"featured_media":81,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-9","category-posters"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/wwiposters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/wwiposters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/wwiposters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/wwiposters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2064"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/wwiposters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/wwiposters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/wwiposters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/wwiposters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/wwiposters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/wwiposters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}