"The poster included here shows a giant enemy hand stretching toward the River Piave. Mauzan's work is in the mainstream of Italian commercial art, but in this case he has drawn from the fantasies in book illustrations. Such strange images are relatively rare in war posters. The poster was issued by the Consorzio Bancario (Banking Consortium)" (Darracott, p. xx). And though he does mine the darker recesses of his imagination, Mauzan couldn't have chosen a more direct appeal to feed the coffers of a wartime economy for the sake of liberation than with this scabrous claw about to be chopped to bits by the embodiment of Italian military might.
G. Ricordi, Milano
literature: Mauzan, S074; Mauzan/Cartellonista, p. 58; Darracott, p. 32; Italia Che Cambria, 49; PAI-XXX, 560
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