Stop the Arms Race!
Poster
1976 (made)
1976 (made)
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This Cold War poster portrays the Soviets as law-abiding peace keepers, symbolised by the ink and paper of the Stockholm Declaration. A traditional Bolshevik graphic device, the communists occupy an elevated status, literally the upper portion of the image. The enemy capitalists, meanwhile - seeking to destroy communist attempts at peace through militarist imperatives - are relegated to the lower margin. In this poster, all capitalists are symbolised as a homogenous threat, there is no reference to particular nationalities.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Stop the Arms Race! (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Colour offset lithograph |
| Brief description | Cold War Anti-militarist Communist Poster by M. Abramov. USSR, 1976. |
| Physical description | Image of an imposing blue wall, constructed at the top by layers of the Stockholm Agreement, and metal tips of ink pens. Below, armed capitalists in a tank seek to destroy the wall. |
| Marks and inscriptions |
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| Credit line | Gift of the American Friends of the V&A; Gift to the American Friends by Leslie, Judith and Gabri Schreyer and Alice Schreyer Batko |
| Production | only impressions 3000 printed - Edition number 49-122 |
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| Summary | This Cold War poster portrays the Soviets as law-abiding peace keepers, symbolised by the ink and paper of the Stockholm Declaration. A traditional Bolshevik graphic device, the communists occupy an elevated status, literally the upper portion of the image. The enemy capitalists, meanwhile - seeking to destroy communist attempts at peace through militarist imperatives - are relegated to the lower margin. In this poster, all capitalists are symbolised as a homogenous threat, there is no reference to particular nationalities. |
| Other number | LS.1792 - Leslie Schreyer Loan Number |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.1817-2004 |
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| Record created | October 19, 2004 |
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