Our Enemy - The Bureaucrat and I
Poster
1989 (published)
1989 (published)
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Poster depicting people symbolising various faults of laziness, arrogance and inefficiency pointing their finger.
Object details
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| Title | Our Enemy - The Bureaucrat and I (manufacturer's title) |
| Materials and techniques | Colour offset lithograph |
| Brief description | Poster by the Battling Pencil group from a portfolio of 24 entitled 'Perestroika For and Against'. Russia, 1989. |
| Physical description | Poster depicting people symbolising various faults of laziness, arrogance and inefficiency pointing their finger. |
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| Production type | Mass produced |
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| Credit line | Given by Peggy vance |
| Historical context | Ninth poster in ‘Prerestroika [restructuring] For and Against’ portfolio. It urges viewers to correct their own faults as the country cannot change until everyone takes individual responsibility for dealing with the bureaucrat within themselves. This is illustrated by a number of male figures embodying faults of laziness, arrogance and inefficiency, with fingers pointing towards the slogan. The portfolio contains a series of 25 satirical posters by a group of Leningrad artists known as ‘Battling Pencil’ on the theme of the struggle to restructure communism in the new political atmosphere under the regime of Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachov (b.1931), appointed general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party in 1985, with text and images edited by A.M Murtov and V.I. Kiunap respectively. Each poster is composed of an image with an accompanying verse in the tradition of the Russian lubok. |
| Production | Attribution note: published in a print run of 5,000 |
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| Accession number | E.368-1990 |
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| Record created | February 18, 2009 |
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