The Nation's Fortune
Poster
1989 (published)
1989 (published)
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Poster with an image of a man greedily opening a tin letterred 'The Nation's Fortune' with an opener in the form of the hammer and sickle symbol.
Object details
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| Title | The Nation's Fortune (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 with an image of a man greedily opening a tin letterred 'The Nation's Fortune' with an opener in the form of the hammer and sickle symbol. |
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| Production type | Mass produced |
| Marks and inscriptions | Battling Pencil logo |
| Credit line | Given by Peggy Vance |
| Object history | image of man opening a can with an opener in the form of the hammer and sickle symbol. |
| Historical context | The fourteenth poster in the 'Prerestroika [restructuring] For and Against' portfolio condemning the communist apparatchiks for abusing their power for personal gain through the image of man opening a can with an opener in the form of the hammer and sickle symbol. 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. |
| Production | Attribution note: published in a print run of 5,000 |
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| Accession number | E.373-1990 |
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| Record created | February 18, 2009 |
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