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Aurora

Poster
1989 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

This poster advertises an exhibition of Krzysztof Ducki’s posters at the Mücsarnok’s Dorottya Street gallery in Budapest in 1989. The image of the sinking of the Aurora wittily encapsulated the changing political situation in Hungary that year. (The Aurora was the battleship from which the first shot was fired at the Winter Palace in St Petersburg during the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.) The poster expressed in both image and lettering the recent abolition of the Annual Revolution Day celebration of 7 November. This had been a public holiday.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Titles
  • Aurora (assigned by artist)
  • Pro-democracy Poster Collection (named collection)
Materials and techniques
Colour offset lithograph printed on paper
Brief description
Poster by Krzysztof Ducki from the Pro-democracy Poster Collection. Hungary, late 1980s.
Physical description
Poster
Dimensions
  • Height: 957mm
  • Width: 677mm
Credit line
Given by Mücsarnok, Budapest, through Krisztina Jerger
Subjects depicted
Summary
This poster advertises an exhibition of Krzysztof Ducki’s posters at the Mücsarnok’s Dorottya Street gallery in Budapest in 1989. The image of the sinking of the Aurora wittily encapsulated the changing political situation in Hungary that year. (The Aurora was the battleship from which the first shot was fired at the Winter Palace in St Petersburg during the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.) The poster expressed in both image and lettering the recent abolition of the Annual Revolution Day celebration of 7 November. This had been a public holiday.
Collection
Accession number
E.157-1991

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Record createdFebruary 26, 2003
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