Blow It Up!
Poster
| Artist/Maker |
Poster depicting an enormous statue of a bureaucrat seated behind a desk with a pile of papers and a pot of pencils. Workmen with axes and a small crane attempt to demolish the statue from one side with little effect. The text roughly translates as 'Dictatorship & Communist snobbery and arrogance are all part of the bureaucrat's arsenal. It's almost impossible to fight against him, yet there is a way...Blow him up!'.
Object details
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| Title | Blow It Up! (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 an enormous statue of a bureaucrat seated behind a desk with a pile of papers and a pot of pencils. Workmen with axes and a small crane attempt to demolish the statue from one side with little effect. The text roughly translates as 'Dictatorship & Communist snobbery and arrogance are all part of the bureaucrat's arsenal. It's almost impossible to fight against him, yet there is a way...Blow him up!'. |
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| Credit line | Given by Peggy Vance |
| Production | Attribution note: published in a print run of 5,000 |
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| Accession number | E.369-1990 |
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| Record created | February 18, 2009 |
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