My favorite Bolshevik propaganda artist of all time might be Dmitrii Orlov, better known as “Moor,” who was active in revolutionary struggles from 1905 through the Russian Civil War and World War II. His drawings are just so fucking hardcore. Readers of this blog will have seen some of his illustrations for the militant godless journal Bezbozhnik, as well as other assorted propaganda posters. Trotsky named him as one of the USSR’s finest young cartoonists.
In this post I’m just including some of the ones I like the most. No real rhyme or reason to it. Enjoy!
One of the posters, the most stunning I think, (the fourth of the larger images after ‘Enjoy!”), seems not to be by Moor/Orlov but to be ‘Internatsional’ by Alexander Petrovich Apsit (1880-1944). Published by VTsIK Publishing, Moscow, 1918 or 1919. 107 x 70.5 cm.
See Victoria E. Bonnell, who calls it “Apsit’s famous 1918 poster” in her Iconography of Power: Soviet Political Posters Under Lenin and Stalin, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997, p. 190
Amazing!
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One of the posters, the most stunning I think, (the fourth of the larger images after ‘Enjoy!”), seems not to be by Moor/Orlov but to be ‘Internatsional’ by Alexander Petrovich Apsit (1880-1944). Published by VTsIK Publishing, Moscow, 1918 or 1919. 107 x 70.5 cm.
See Victoria E. Bonnell, who calls it “Apsit’s famous 1918 poster” in her Iconography of Power: Soviet Political Posters Under Lenin and Stalin, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997, p. 190
also
https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/25290326_apsit-a-the-internationale-1919
http://old.redavantgarde.com/shop/?author=415&s=artist
http://tierradentro.tumblr.com/post/59867137482/redplebeian-alexander-apsits-internationale
I have enjoyed the collection you put together.
yes, sorry for the inaccuracy there
If you don’t mind my asking, are you the same Rick Kuhn who writes about Henryk Grossman?
Yes
Awesome. You rule.
Hey Rick, any reason you suddenly defriended (even blocked) me on Facebook? I don’t recall us ever having a bad interaction or argument.
great work