Ephemera installed throughout the exhibition by Allison Rudnick, the department's assistant curator, supplied a sense of material culture on the home front: a group of nine chromolithographic postcards from several nations shows zeppelins looming cartoonishly over
iconic landmarks, and two examples of
printed cotton toiles de guerre from 1916,
combining French patriotic and military motifs with a classical ornamental vocabulary.
The suite of 9 colorful Complementary Soles
prints by Willie Cole embodies two
iconic gestures as double entendres — the science of color, based on Josef Albers» explorations,
combined with the steam iron image.