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Don't Look At The Faces (We Are Learning Democracy)

Poster
1989 (published)
Artist/Maker
Battling Pencil (design studio)
Artists of the RSFSR (publishers)
Nieliubin, F (designer)
Suslova, V (author)
Place of origin
Russia (Published)
Moscow (published)
Saint Petersburg (published)

Poster depicting two bureaucrats fighting as a result of greater democracy.

Object details

Category
Politics
Object type
Poster
TitleDon't Look At The Faces (We Are Learning Democracy) (manufacturer's title)
Materials and techniques
Colour offset lithograph
Paper
Printing Inks
Brief description
Poster by the Battling Pencil group from a portfolio of 24 entitled 'Perestroika For and Against'. Russia, 1989.
Physical description
Poster depicting two bureaucrats fighting as a result of greater democracy.
Dimensions
  • Height: 43.8cm
  • Width: 33cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • Battling Pencil logo
  • We kept silent, so silent in the stagnant years, but today - hurrah! - we have achieved freedom (Verse accompanying the poster image)
Credit line
Given by Peggy vance
Historical context
The third poster is part of the ‘Prerestroika [restructuring] For and Against’ portfolio. The poster depicts two bureaucrats fighting as a result of greater democracy.

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.
Subjects depicted
Bureaucracy
Perestroika
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.362-1990

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Record createdFebruary 18, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O188797/dont-look-at-the-faces-poster-nieliubin-f/
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