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“It’s Dazzling and Cheap!”: Mayakovsky and Selling the Soviet “Bright Future,” featuring Lots! of! Exclamations!
agitprop poster by Vladimir Mayakovsky . an example of the russian art style of constructivism
interesting stuff from wiki:
Translation:
DO YOU WANT TO? JOIN1. Do you want to conquer coldness?2. Do you want to conquer hunger?3. Do you want to eat?4. Do you want to drink?Hurry up to join the strike team of exemplary labor.Narkompros, ROSTA no. ….
Comments:
- The top line is the title of a short agitation verse known as “agitka”.
- In Russian language the words “coldness” and “hunger” rhyme, and this couple is a ubiquitous cliche in descriptions of harsh living conditions.
- See Udarnik article for “strike teams of exemplary labor”.
- The smoke in the picture #2 had different associations at these times: today smoke is pollution, then it was a sign of industrial revolution, and posters of early Soviet times abound in smoky chimneys of plants.
"And so - stations, stations, stations. Stations flying away to the end of the train like stone butterflies."
Boris Pasternak, “Safe Conduct” (via clericalerror)
