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Iconography of Power - Soviet Political Posters under Lenin and Stalin (Paperback, Revised Ed.)
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Iconography of Power - Soviet Political Posters under Lenin and Stalin (Paperback, Revised Ed.)
Series: Studies on the History of Society and Culture, 27
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Masters at visual propaganda, the Bolsheviks produced thousands of
vivid and compelling posters after they seized power in October
1917. Intended for a semi-literate population that was accustomed
to the rich visual legacy of the Russian autocracy and the Orthodox
Church, political posters came to occupy a central place in the
regime's effort to imprint itself on the hearts and minds of the
people and to remold them into the new Soviet women and men. In
this first sociological study of Soviet political posters, Victoria
Bonnell analyzes the shifts that took place in the images,
messages, styles, and functions of political art from 1917 to 1953.
Everyone who lived in Russia after the October revolution had some
familiarity with stock images of the male worker, the great
communist leaders, the collective farm woman, the capitalist, and
others. These were the new icons' standardized images that depicted
Bolshevik heroes and their adversaries in accordance with a fixed
pattern. Like other 'invented traditions' of the modern age,
iconographic images in propaganda art were relentlessly repeated,
bringing together Bolshevik ideology and traditional mythologies of
pre-Revolutionary Russia. Symbols and emblems featured in Soviet
posters of the Civil War and the 1920s gave visual meaning to the
Bolshevik worldview dominated by the concept of class. Beginning in
the 1930s, visual propaganda became more prescriptive, providing
models for the appearance, demeanor, and conduct of the new social
types, both positive and negative. Political art also conveyed
important messages about the sacred center of the regime which
evolved during the 1930s from the celebration of the heroic
proletariat to the deification of Stalin. Treating propaganda
images as part of a particular visual language, Bonnell shows how
people 'read' them - relying on their habits of seeing and
interpreting folk, religious, commercial, and political art (both
before and after 1917) as well as the fine art traditions of Russia
and the West. Drawing on monumental sculpture and holiday displays
as well as posters, the study traces the way Soviet propaganda art
shaped the mentality of the Russian people (the legacy is present
even today) and was itself shaped by popular attitudes and
assumptions. "Iconography of Power" includes posters dating from
the final decades of the old regime to the death of Stalin, located
by the author in Russian, American, and English libraries and
archives. One hundred exceptionally striking posters are reproduced
in the book, many of them never before published. Bonnell places
these posters in a historical context and provides a provocative
account of the evolution of the visual discourse on power in Soviet
Russia.
General
Imprint: |
University of California Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Studies on the History of Society and Culture, 27 |
Release date: |
September 1999 |
First published: |
October 1999 |
Authors: |
Victoria E. Bonnell
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Dimensions: |
254 x 178 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
385 |
Edition: |
Revised Ed. |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-520-22153-6 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-520-22153-2 |
Barcode: |
9780520221536 |
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