Wednesday, August 09, 2006

The Art of War

Reginald Mount... Fire-bomb Fritz (1942. Ink & inkwash on board). "...Experimental drawing for 'Fire-bomb Fritz,' an animated incendiary bomb whose expression – comic, rather than terrifying – was intended to reassure people of the harmlessness of incendiaries if tackled in time." From Works by Reginald Mount - part of the brilliant exhibition The Art of War at the British National Archives - illustrations, propaganda, cartoons, films and art created during World War Two.