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He Has Changed The Record. Glasnost! Glasnost! Glasnost!

Poster
1989 (published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Poster depicting a man standing at a lectern with his open mouth forming a record player. A record is playing 'Glasnost! Glasnost! Glasnost!' and he holds another record behind his back.

Object details

Category
Object type
TitleHe Has Changed The Record. Glasnost! Glasnost! Glasnost! (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 a man standing at a lectern with his open mouth forming a record player. A record is playing 'Glasnost! Glasnost! Glasnost!' and he holds another record behind his back.
Dimensions
  • Height: 43.8cm
  • Width: 33cm
Production typeMass produced
Marks and inscriptions
  • Battling Pencil Logo
  • There can be not trust / in the art of hypocrisy (Verse in Russian printed within the image of the poster)
Credit line
Given by Peggy vance
Historical context
Sixth poster in ‘Prerestroika [restructuring] For and Against’ portfolio. It depicts a speaker at a lectern with his mouth forming a record player, playing a record that repeats 'Glasnost!, Glasnost! Glasnost! refering to the new policy of 'openess'. He holds the record that has just been changed behind his back. An accompanying verse warns that it is not possible to have faith in the wiles of a hypocrite.

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
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
E.365-1990

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Record createdFebruary 18, 2009
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