19 November 2011

Views and Reviews: Soviet Political Posters and Cartoons

Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art presents:
'Views and Reviews: Soviet Political Posters and Cartoons'
Runs thru Dec 4th

www.blockmuseum

"Two decades after the fall of the Soviet Union, Views and Re-Views: Soviet Political Posters and Cartoons invites a post-Cold War assessment of Soviet graphic arts through posters, cartoons, and photomontages from the time of the Russian Civil War (1918–21) into the late Soviet period.

The exhibition includes well-known Soviet graphic works, by such artists as Viktor Deni, Dmitri Moor, El Lissitsky, and Gustav Klutsis, as well as lesser-known, but equally compelling works by the Kukryniksy (a three-artist collaborative), Alexander Zhitomirsky, and others..."

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