Under the Banner of Lenin for Socialist Construction
Poster
1930 (published)
1930 (published)
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This poster celebrates the rapid industrialisation that had begun under the first Five Year Plan of 1928. It portrays Joseph Stalin as Lenin's legitimate successor as the leader of the Soviet Union. But although its message was orthodox, the poster has the kind of dynamic composition that Stalin increasingly condemned. He called it 'formalism', and it became an artistic crime. Just after the poster was made, in the early 1930s, Stalinism froze design into the banal and rigid formulas of Socialist Realism. The poster is photomontaged. Gustavs Klucis was one of the Constructivists, a group of artists who embraced the original aims of the Soviet Revolution of 1917.
Object details
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| Title | Under the Banner of Lenin for Socialist Construction (manufacturer's title) |
| Materials and techniques | Colour lithograph on paper |
| Brief description | Gustavs Klucis. Under the Banner of Lenin for Socialist Construction. Political poster published by the State Publishing House, USSR, 1930 |
| Physical description | Poster |
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| Production type | Mass produced |
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| Summary | This poster celebrates the rapid industrialisation that had begun under the first Five Year Plan of 1928. It portrays Joseph Stalin as Lenin's legitimate successor as the leader of the Soviet Union. But although its message was orthodox, the poster has the kind of dynamic composition that Stalin increasingly condemned. He called it 'formalism', and it became an artistic crime. Just after the poster was made, in the early 1930s, Stalinism froze design into the banal and rigid formulas of Socialist Realism. The poster is photomontaged. Gustavs Klucis was one of the Constructivists, a group of artists who embraced the original aims of the Soviet Revolution of 1917. |
| Bibliographic reference | Tamara Kudryatvseva, Circling the square: avant-garde porcelain from revolutionary Russia London: Fontanka, 2004. 190p: ill. (chiefly col.) ISBN: 0954309510 (hbk.), 0954309522 (pbk.). |
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| Accession number | E.404-1988 |
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| Record created | February 24, 2003 |
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