Political Posters Central and East Europe 1945-1995: Signs of the Times FROM THE PUBLISHER
The political poster was one of the most widely discredited and closely policed aspects of cultural life in the former communist bloc. As a weapon in an ideologically defined social struggle for human emancipation and as a medium of critical engagement, the poster had a decisive political and social status it could never aspire to in the West.
The poster's history is a story of aesthetic, political and, finally, national liberation. The nature of the political poster can be seen to move from the empty rhetorics of political sloganeering to become a weapon of criticism and resistance.
This comprehensively illustrated comparative analysis of political poster design - drawn from major collections in Belorussia, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Slovenia and the Ukraine - exemplifies the aesthetic diversity of the region under communist rule. The book will be of interest to the general reader, poster enthusiasts and students of the history of art and design, graphic design, contemporary history and politics.
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