A life-size portrait of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin and other ... "were essentially works of propaganda". The artworks are being auctioned as separate lots with estimates starting at ...

‘Monumental’ paintings from the era of the Soviet Union dating from the 1920s to ... They are essentially works of propaganda that were put together to communicate the ideas and principles ...

Soviet Propaganda Posters Between the World Wars’ (13 April – 12 August), organised by Maine’s Bowdoin College Museum of Art, shows how graphic designers interpreted the revolution’s utopian ideals ...

“I want to stress, however, that I’m not an art historian,” he said ... has written for an upcoming book about conceptions of time in the Soviet Union, Johnson explores the propaganda posters produced ...

Last summer, a staffer at the Philadelphia Museum of Art was digging ... a Russian propaganda machine that sprang up the same day that Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union. Its team of designers ...

In a nutshell, the idea was to reframe state propaganda in the same way as Pop art reframed ads and comics ... Meanwhile, once the end of the Soviet Union made “dissident Russian artists ...

Propaganda: The Art of Selling Lies asks the question ... and eventually, the Soviet Union, would actually take a different lesson from the experiences of the First World War.

In the Soviet Union, his “day job,” so speak ... what he considered his real work — consisted of art that satirized Soviet propaganda and would have gotten him tossed in jail (or worse ...

It originated in Moscow, where Komar and Melamid made their mark by parodying Soviet propaganda art. “No one took what ... into the youth section of the Union of Artists. Membership in the ...

This tang of ambivalence keeps their art from becoming the propaganda it evokes ... working under the eye of the Soviet Union. (When they moved to New York later that decade, they turned their ...