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ארתור שיק, סט שלם של 6 גלויות קריקטורות אנטי-נאציות / אנטי-פשיסטיות, 1942 - ארתור שיק - 6 גלויות אנטי-נאציות במעטפה המקורית, סדרת גלויות שהוציא שיק עבור ה Magazine for men, שיקגו 1942. 18x11.5, מעטפה מקורית. קרעים קלים במעטפה. Text on backs reads ”Szyk Characters - Set #6 - Card #1 - Caricatured By Arthur Szyk Especially For Esquire, The Magazine For Men.” Caricatures of numerous world leaders including Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, etc. Szyk had produced anti-fascist cartoons and drawings in the 1930's, but these were not particularly well-received, as Britain had an official policy of appeasement at that point. It wasn't until after the outbreak of hostilities in 1939 in Europe that his work began to be used as anti-Axis propaganda in American periodicals. The book I've referenced, The New Order, was published just after Szyk arrived in America, in 1941. Szyk spent the war years in New York, turning out florid--or what some might call inflammatory--political propaganda against the German, Italian and Japanese fascist governments. These caricatures appeared throughout the American media, in magazines, newspapers, postcards, stamps, in religious and military publications, on posters. He also produced commercial illustration for Coca Cola and U.S. Steel, while showing his work in art galleries as well. Szyk was a one-man propaganda machine. Hitler even put a price on his head.