Le Petit parisien. Tecircte de Boche grand roman national par Aristide Bruant – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of Le Petit parisien. Tecircte de Boche grand roman national par Aristide Bruant. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Le Petit parisien. Tecircte de Boche grand roman national par Aristide Bruant
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The title, *Tête de Boche*, is French wartime slang for a German soldier, and this 1915 color lithograph promotes it as a "great national novel" by Aristide Bruant, the Montmartre singer and songwriter known for his cabaret work. The poster is tied to *Le Petit Parisien*, a major Paris daily, and dates to the second year of the war, when newspapers and publishers used serialized fiction and bold graphics to hold readers' interest in the fighting. Bruant's name would have been familiar to many Parisians, and the mocking title shows how popular culture reduced enemy soldiers to objects of ridicule. The only mark of the artist recorded here is the signature "OS.
| Created / published | 1915 |
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| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 62 x 45 cm. |
| Notes | Translation of title: Le Petit parisien. Krauthead a great national novel by Aristide Bruant. Signed: OS. E.L. Garbaty donor. Promotional goal: Fr. D41. 1915. Item is no. 265 in a printed checklist available in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room. MDD · Rehse Archiv fuumlr Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik former owner. DLC |
| Subjects | World War 1914-1918--Military personnel--German. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 2,820 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1514_Le_Petit_parisien_Tecir_1915 |
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