Dmitry moor biography
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Russian Revolutionary Posters
This blog is inspired by a recent donation of Russian Revolution posters by Bill Broadbent to St Edmund Hall.
An explosion of images accompanied the Russian Revolution. Posters were an important feature of the historical landscape: over 3, posters were designed and printed in millions of copies between and , the period of Civil War when the Bolsheviks subdued counter-revolutionary insurgencies. During the Civil War, a period of economic devastation and destruction, somehow paper could be found for newspapers and for the lithographic production of posters. Artistic talent was mobilised from above to represent the Revolution unfolding in real time. Often highly stylized, posters were largely the work of trained poster artists and contain classics of early Soviet art. Boundaries between high art and mass-produced popular art, and art and propaganda, were fluid. The Futurist poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, an ardent supporter of the cause, oversaw teams of artists who created displays of posters in the shop windows of the Russian Telegraph Agency (ROSTA). It has been argued that the political poster brought invention and imagination with the aim of appealing through the visual to the illiterate masses. Political posters had a pedagogic functi
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Primary Sources
(1) Maria Lafont, Soviet Posters ()
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(2) Victoria Bonnell, Iconography supplementary Power: Council Political Posters under Bolshevist and Stalin ()
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(3) David Laborious, Red Understanding over Russia ()
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Born in Novocherkask, in the family mining engineer.
Lives in Kiev, Kharkov.
Arrives in Moscow.
Studies at the Moscow University, first in physics and mathematics, and then law school.
Took an active part in the revolution of barricades on Malaya Bronnaya.
He worked in the underground press.
The first cartoon in the magazine "the Clock" under the pseudonym Dor.
Make posters, drawings and cartoons for magazines "Service" and newspaper "Russian word", "Morning of Russia".
Together with a group of young artists and writers (Poor Damian) tried to establish a magazine "Bagpipes", but of the four rooms none has been passed by the censor.
Supported the revolution of
Collaborates in the publishing house of the Central Executive Committee. Painted agitation trains. Makes a festive decoration of the building of the Historical Museum for the holiday 1 May.
Participated in the design of the first campaign train.
Cartoons printed in the newspaper "Izvestia", magazine "Soldier".
Creates posters for the political Directorate of the revolutionary military Council.
Works in the "Window satire GROWTH".
Since political cartoons and drawings are published in the newspaper "Pravda".
Professor of VHUTEMAS-higher art and technical Institute, the Moscow Institute of