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Let Us Return To The Water Its One-time Purity!

Poster
1988 (published)
Artist/Maker
Plakat Moscow (publishers)
Kourmanayerskaya, E (designer)
Nikiforova, L (editors)
Kravchenko, A (artistic editor)
Place of origin
Moscow (published)

Poster with an image of a teacup superimposed over stretch of water and a landscape, with the sun reflected in the water.


Object details

Category
Politics
Object type
Poster
TitleLet Us Return To The Water Its One-time Purity! (manufacturer's title)
Materials and techniques
Colour offset lithograph
Paper
Printing Ink
Colour Offset Lithography
Brief description
Environment poster issued by the Soviet state publishing house "Plakat" promoting clean water resources
Physical description
Poster with an image of a teacup superimposed over stretch of water and a landscape, with the sun reflected in the water.
Dimensions
  • Height: 67.5cm
  • Width: 48.1cm
Production typeMass produced
Marks and inscriptions
...Between 1988-1990 immediadte measures must be taken to achieve an economic and rational breakthrough in the use of water resources and the protection of man-made rivers, lakes & other springs from pollution and draining. Decree from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Union of Ministers of the USSR ' immediate measures to be taken for improving the use of water resources in our country'. (Text printed in Russian within the image of the poster.)
Credit line
Given by Dr David Segal
Historical context
One of a number of posters punlished by the Soviet state publishing house "Plakat" on the theme of the environment in teh late 1980s and early 1990s.
Production
Attribution note: published in a print run of 95,000
Subjects depicted
Water Pollution
Environmentalism
Cups
Water
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.2047-1991

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Record createdMarch 4, 2009
Record URL
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