Communist Posters

Name: Communist Posters
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SKU: 9781789142068
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Summary

Communist Posters offers a comprehensive global survey of the history and variety of communist poster art. Featuring expert chapters on regions including Russia, China, Mongolia, Eastern Europe, North Korea, Vietnam, and Cuba, the book explores how posters served as powerful propaganda tools to promote state authority, revolution, and also act as means of protest. Beautifully illustrated, it examines the political and artistic significance of these striking visuals across the communist world.
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Ideal for readers interested in art, history, politics, and visual culture, particularly those fascinated by propaganda and revolutionary graphic design from communist regimes worldwide.

'A visual feast and an illuminating global study.' - Publishers' Weekly

Description

One of the common features of communist regimes is the use of art for revolutionary means. Posters, in particular, have served as beacons of propaganda—vehicles of coercion, instruction, censure, and debate—in every communist nation. They have promoted the authority of the state and revolution, but have also been used as an effective means of protest.

Communist Posters is the first truly global survey of the history and variety of communist poster art. Each chapter is written by an expert in the field and examines a different region of the world: Russia, China, Mongolia, Eastern Europe, North Korea, Vietnam, and Cuba. This beautifully illustrated, comprehensive survey will appeal to a wide audience interested in art, history, and politics.

'A visual feast and an illuminating global study.' - Publishers' Weekly

'An important addition to the work on communication and legitimation in communist countries...Recommended.' - Choice

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Praised as "a visual feast and an illuminating global study" by Publishers' Weekly, the book is noted for its vast collection of over 330 illustrations and scholarly essays providing rich context. Spectrum Culture highlights it as a comprehensive presentation of vivid propaganda predating social media, spanning leaders like Castro, Mao, Lenin, and Stalin. Hyperallergic calls it the first major survey in the field, with high-quality images emphasising artistic and political features, especially discussions of posters and dissent.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781789142068

Publisher: Reaktion Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 13 July 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Reaktion Books

Illustration: 295 illustrations, 290 in colour

Contributors:

Edited by Mary Ginsberg

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 214.0mm

Height: 290.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 272

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Arts & Culture Education & Reference Non-Fiction Politics & Current Affairs

About the Author

Mary Ginsberg has had a career in international finance, and latterly has been a curator at the British Museum, London. She is the author of The Art of Influence: Asian Propaganda (2013).