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Caricaturist:
Kukryniksy group  Search this
Physical Description:
paper (overall material)
paint (overall material)
Measurements:
overall: 240 cm x 133.5 cm; 94 1/2 in x 52 9/16 in
Object Name:
print
Other Terms:
print; Stencil
Date made:
1942-1943
1942
Description:
During World War II, after the breakdown of the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact, the Soviet news agency TASS issued a series of propaganda posters. Topics included anti-Nazi caricatures and Socialist Realist art encouraging the war effort. Beginning in June 1941, the Union of Soviet Artists established a publishing collective to produce the posters on an almost daily basis. Because they were displayed in the windows of the news agency's Moscow office, they are known as TASS window posters. It is estimated that about 1,500 different posters were produced between 1941 and 1945.
Well-known artists and poets worked on the designs and captions, and most of the posters were produced in limited editions using the stencil process for both graphics and text. Many posters were completed and reproduced within 24 hours, making them very responsive to political issues and war news. Copies were distributed abroad by VOKS, the Soviet Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries. Their messages helped present the USSR favorably to its new allies, including the U.S. The Museum has six of these posters received in 1943 through VOKS. Other collections outside Russia include the University of Nottingham in England and Columbia and Cornell universities in the U.S.
TASS window poster No. 503. Six-panel poster with caricatures of Hitler's rise to power, including the Munich beer-hall putsch, book burning, and the publication of <I>Mein Kampf</I>. Three artists—Mikhail Kupriyanov, Porfiry Krylov, and Nikolai Sokolov—known collectively as Kukryniksy are credited with the design, and poet Deyman Bedny wrote the text.
Location:
Currently not on view
Subject:
Soviet Union  Search this
Political Caricatures  Search this
Related Publication:
SOVIET WAR POSTERS, c1940-1945, The Tass Poster Series from the Hallward Library, University of Nottingham
Credit Line:
Dr. Ales Hrdlicka
ID Number:
GA.18850
Accession number:
164567
Catalog number:
18850
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Data Source:
National Museum of American History
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-e9f9-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:nmah_794651