| Description |
186 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword / Jonathan Crary -- Building the Collective / Leah Dickerman -- Switched On / Maria Gough -- Civil War (1918-1921) -- NEP (1921-1927) -- Five-Year Plans (1928-1937) |
| Summary |
Building the Collective showcases over 100 posters and other graphic works, representing the talents of a wide variety of artists, from the acclaimed to the anonymous. Color reproductions of works by Gustav Klutsis, Aleksandr Rodchenko, El Lissitzky, and the Stenberg brothers - as well as those of lesser-know but important designers such as Aleksandr Deineka, Viktor Deni, and Elena Semenova - are shown alongside posters created by "brigades" of designers who worked collectively and anonymously in the spirit of the times |
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Covering the first decades of the Soviet Union, from the Civil War to the end of Stalin's Second Five-Year Plan in the 1930s, the graphic works in Building the Collective provide a remarkable overview of design during one of this century's most politically turbulent and artistically active periods. These designs, from the collection of Merrill C. Berman, challenge assumptions of a monolithic Soviet poster style, conveying the impressive range of graphic design as it responded to a rapidly evolving political situation. Providing historical context and focusing on images of labor, industrialization, and technology, Building the Collective demonstrates how the ideological imperative of imagining a new collective society existed in a fertile and sometimes contradictory relationship with the artists' efforts to redefine their role in post-revolutionary Russia |
| Notes |
"In association with an exhibition held at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University"--T.p. verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-183) |
| Subject |
Berman, Merrill C.
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Berman, Merrill C. -- Art collections -- Exhibitions.
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Graphic design (Typography) -- Soviet Union -- History -- 20th century.
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Political posters, Russian -- Exhibitions.
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Political posters, Russian.
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| SUBJECT |
USSR -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125764 -- Posters http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003003680 -- Exhibitions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001275
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USSR -- History -- 1917-1936 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125811 -- Posters.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003003680
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| Genre/Form |
Exhibition catalogs.
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| Author |
Dickerman, Leah, 1964-
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Wallach Art Gallery.
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| LC no. |
95051211 |
| ISBN |
1568980736 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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1568980744 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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