Aurora
Poster
1989 (printed)
1989 (printed)
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This poster advertises an exhibition of Krzysztof Ducki’s posters at the Mücsarnok’s Dorottya Street gallery in Budapest in 1989. The image of the sinking of the Aurora wittily encapsulated the changing political situation in Hungary that year. (The Aurora was the battleship from which the first shot was fired at the Winter Palace in St Petersburg during the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.) The poster expressed in both image and lettering the recent abolition of the Annual Revolution Day celebration of 7 November. This had been a public holiday.
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| Materials and techniques | Colour offset lithograph printed on paper |
| Brief description | Poster by Krzysztof Ducki from the Pro-democracy Poster Collection. Hungary, late 1980s. |
| Physical description | Poster |
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| Credit line | Given by Mücsarnok, Budapest, through Krisztina Jerger |
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| Summary | This poster advertises an exhibition of Krzysztof Ducki’s posters at the Mücsarnok’s Dorottya Street gallery in Budapest in 1989. The image of the sinking of the Aurora wittily encapsulated the changing political situation in Hungary that year. (The Aurora was the battleship from which the first shot was fired at the Winter Palace in St Petersburg during the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.) The poster expressed in both image and lettering the recent abolition of the Annual Revolution Day celebration of 7 November. This had been a public holiday. |
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| Accession number | E.157-1991 |
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| Record created | February 26, 2003 |
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