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Announcement RChD: Creación y Pensamiento Vol. 9, Nº 17| NOV 2024 | Open Topic. Deadline for full manuscript submission: July 31, 2024. 

The soviet propaganda poster: A specificity

Authors

  • Jaques Le Bourgeois
  • Sandra Valderrama (Traductora)

Abstract

The author of the article, (extracted from his doctorate thesis in History), suggests to us an original approach of the Soviet propaganda poster. They are characteristic products of Russian culture, rooted in icons and popular pictorial traditions such as the Lubok. The art of the poster is also part of a specific artistic training, a branch of the National Fine Arts and Architecture Academy. A lot of them are really works of art, but they mainly serve to the diffusion of ideology. And their originality is precisely located in what the author calls consubstantiality, using a religious word to define this immutable mixture of art and ideology which characterizes the Soviet poster. This would explain their current attraction, the passion of collectors and the continuous attention of the Russian state upon them. The posters analyzed, (a collection of more than 3500 pieces), mainly belong to three centers situated in Moscow: the Museum of the Russian Armed Forces, the Lenin National Library and the Center of National Russian Archives of Literature and Art (RGALI).

Keywords:

Political poster, Soviet political poster, art and politics, art and ideology, Soviet propaganda