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Soviet Russian Propaganda Poster "Organize Nurseries, Kindergartens, Factories, Kitchens, Dining Halls, Mechanical Laundries"

 Collection
Identifier: 7053 G

Scope and Contents

Women's labor, Soviet Russian propaganda poster; lithograph in colors on paper, mounted on linen; foreground and right border images show women working on lathes; inset background panel in warm colors and white depicts men and women engaged in childcare, meal preparation, and clothes laundering; bold blocky modernist text, 28 1/4 x 20 in.

Dates

  • undated

Creator

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Biographical / Historical

Anna Kazimirovna Borovskaya was a creative visual artist. Anna Kazimirovna Borovskaya was born in 1901 and died in 1983. Born in 1901, Anna Kazimirovna Borovskaya was largely influenced by the 1920s. Significant artistic developments that had been established in the earlier part of the 20th century continued to be worked on during the 1920s and 1930s. During this period the careers of many influential and pioneering artists began to blossom, yet at the same time there was an atmosphere of reflection and solemnity following the horrors of the First World War. Major shifts in politics were happening worldwide, and Marxism took a strong hold as an ideology amongst artist groups and communities. Due to its cultural importance, Surrealism spread as an ideology on an international scale, and became the leading theme of the pictorial arts in the 1920s. The Bauhaus movement developed during this time and concentrated on a unification of all modes of art, working towards the idea of the 'Gesamtkunstwerk'. The liberal politics of the Weimar Republic in Germany empowered this movement to blossom and flourish and develop further.

Extent

0.11 cubic feet

Language of Materials

English