Реальность утопии. Искусство русского плаката ХХ века (+DVD)

The authors of this work - Klaus Vashik and Nina Baburina - have created more than a monograph, an album or a DVD: we have before us the result of a large-scale scientific project. Only its book form contains more than 450 color illustrations. Behind them is the whole history of Russian and Soviet posters, from its inception in the middle of the 19th century to the present day. The author's analysis of the topic - unprecedented in terms of the scale of coverage, as well as the depth and versatility of understanding the poster phenomenon in Russia and the USSR - is conducted in a broad cultural and political context. On the example of specific works, the process of turning ideological concepts into visual images, with their characteristic metaphors and allegories, is demonstrated. The forms and mechanisms of poster communication are described in detail - from the formation of its iconic repertoire to the details of production and the peculiarities of the perception of the poster by contemporaries. Since the production of posters in the USSR became a truly national affair, an entire industry that reproduced the settings of the official ideology, special attention is paid to the technologies of state control and censorship of posters in the book. independently, getting acquainted with the history of the creation of a particular poster and the biography of its author. In addition to 9 chronological presentations, you can view 15 thematic multimedia presentations of poster art. In addition, the DVD contains 180 illustrated texts on political, social and art history in Russia. The disc is equipped with a search engine that allows you to find posters by keywords, author's name, style, time period, etc.