Orem waxes nostalgic from pictures and posters
The Brigham Young University Museum of Art is displaying exhibits depicting our nation’s past.
Pulitzer Prize winning photographs such as the one in the collection that the Newseum in Washington, D.C. has developed for the museum, are now on display. Themes will cover concepts such as poverty, victory and redemption. This exhibit has the most comprehensive collection of this kind ever assembled. The collection has photographs from every entry since the Pulitzer Prize was first presented in 1942.
The gallery has 15 hours of video and audio of partial interviews with photographers and interactive touch screens of more than 1,000 images. This collection is on loan from the Newseum and is the first venue to house and host the exhibit outside the Newseum.
On the same day, Orem visitors can also view the “For Home and Country: Poster and Propaganda from the Great War” exhibit. In commemoration of the Armistice centennial, the exhibit is a showing of the museum’s World War 1 posters. The display exhibits both iconic posters used during the war known for their beauty and dynamic designs and those international pieces created around the world during that era. Poster printing at that time was one of the most efficient ways to propagate propaganda. The exhibit explains the cultural and historical context of the political complexities and aesthetic excellence of the times.
Both exhibits will be shown December 29th and other dates at the BYU Museum of Art, North Campus Drive, Provo.
Pulitzer Prize winning photographs such as the one in the collection that the Newseum in Washington, D.C. has developed for the museum, are now on display. Themes will cover concepts such as poverty, victory and redemption. This exhibit has the most comprehensive collection of this kind ever assembled. The collection has photographs from every entry since the Pulitzer Prize was first presented in 1942.
The gallery has 15 hours of video and audio of partial interviews with photographers and interactive touch screens of more than 1,000 images. This collection is on loan from the Newseum and is the first venue to house and host the exhibit outside the Newseum.
On the same day, Orem visitors can also view the “For Home and Country: Poster and Propaganda from the Great War” exhibit. In commemoration of the Armistice centennial, the exhibit is a showing of the museum’s World War 1 posters. The display exhibits both iconic posters used during the war known for their beauty and dynamic designs and those international pieces created around the world during that era. Poster printing at that time was one of the most efficient ways to propagate propaganda. The exhibit explains the cultural and historical context of the political complexities and aesthetic excellence of the times.
Both exhibits will be shown December 29th and other dates at the BYU Museum of Art, North Campus Drive, Provo.