The political poster was one of the most widely discredited and closely policed aspects of cultural life in the former communist bloc. The poster's history is a story of aesthetic, political and finally, national liberation. This comprehensively illustrated comparative analysis of political poster design--drawn from major collections in Belorussia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, and the Ukraine--exemplifies the aesthetic diversity of the region under communist rule.
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James Aulich is Senior Lecturer in the History of Art and Design at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Marta Sylvestrova is Curator at the Moravian Gallery, in the Czech Republic.
Marta Sylvestrova is Curator at the Moravian Gallery, in the Czech Republic.
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This review is from: Political Posters in Central and Eastern Europe 1945-1995: Signs of the Times (Paperback)
The Communist era is best known for grandiose pompous art, that can be enjoyed for some of its dramatic flair, aggression or harping over class inequities. Unfortunately this book showcases none of that genre. It is a selective presentation of unimaginative talentless minimalist junk, mostly printed in black and white. The Soviets did have some original strains of modern art in their propaganda machinery, but little of it is reproduced here. This is just a sad cocktail of unoriginal ideas - borrowed from the West and executed poorly (an artistic equivalent of industrial rip-offs of Western consumer goods from the same era). If you want to see some original and funky modern Communist posters, see "Revolucion: Cuban Poster Art" by Lincoln Cushing.
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militant poster, cultural posters, poster museum, poster production, political poster, poster designers, creative intelligentsia, new socialist man, socialist realism, art poster, many posters, communist rhetoric, national communism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Soviet Union, Moravian Gallery, German Democratic Republic, Academy of Fine Art, World War, New York, Red Army, Hungarian National Gallery, Mikhail Avvakumov, Thomas Hill, Viktor Koretsky, Andrei Budnik, Soviet Latvia, All Trade Union Archive, May Day, Prague Spring, United States, Museum of Independence, Manfred Butzmann, Soviet Lithuania, Mariusz Knorowski, October Revolution, Cold War, Jan Sawka, Museum of the Working Class Movement New!
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- The Other Europe (Revised Edition) by Jacques Rupnik on page 46, page 61, and Back Matter
- The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) by Jürgen Habermas on page 81, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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