Stephen White (3) (1945–)
Autor de A Bolshevik Poster
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Sobre El Autor
Stephen White is the James Bryce Professor of Politics, a Senior Research Associate of the School of Central and East European Studies at Glasgow University, and a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Applied Politics in Moscow. White graduated from Trinity College Dublin with degrees in history mostrar más and political science, and then completed a PhD in Soviet studies at Glasgow - including an exchange year at Moscow State University - and a DPhil in politics at Wolfson College Oxford. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2010. Stephen White is the author of numerous articles and books on Soviet and Russian politics. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Series
Obras de Stephen White
Politics and the Ruling Group in Putin's Russia (Studies in Central and Eastern Europe) (2008) 2 copias
Handbook of Reconstruction in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union (Longman Current Affairs) (1991) 2 copias
New Directions in Soviet History (International Council for Central and East European Studies) (1991) 1 copia
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- Obras
- 34
- Miembros
- 253
- Popularidad
- #90,475
- Valoración
- 3.6
- Reseñas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 606
- Idiomas
- 10
Stephen White was able to visit some of the best collections of Soviet posters in the USA, Europe and the Soviet Union. (One wonders what has become of the collections in Moscow that he visited.) He writes detailed accounts of the artists who worked on these posters and the ways in which they were used. Many of these posters were part of a series called "Windows"; they were produced by shock cadres of artists and printers who could react to the latest news from the war front and have hundreds of posters on the streets in a few hours' work. These would be fly-posted in any prominent location, and got their name of "Windows" because empty shops were an ideal target.
The period under review is very narrow, as after 1920 and the end of the civil war and the Russo-Polish War, the emphasis turned to posters on economic and social issues; also, a degree of central control began to be exercised rather than leaving the production to semi-autonomous agencies and cadres. Posters also had to compete with revived commercial posters as Lenin's "New Economic Policy" took hold, putting advertising posters back on the streets.
The author devotes a lot of space to analysing the artwork, themes and execution of the subjects, and comparing these with artistic themes of the period generally, He also describes some late revival of the specifically agitprop styles of poster during the Second World War (or 'Great Patriotic War' as it is known in Russia). A number of these posters echoed the spirit and form of the earlier, Bolshevik posters, though they were produced under very different conditions, both physical (improved materials) and political (the over-riding importance of the Stalinist cult of personality).
Anyone just wanting a collection of Russian posters will be perfectly happy with this book, although there is a lot of text in it. But reading that text will give a very detailed - but far from dry - account of the fervour of the artistic life in the turmoil of Bolshevik Russia.… (más)