Art Of Revolution

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: As New
Publisher: Evans Mitchell Books
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2011
Edition: First Edition

Description: 96 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout. Illustrated By The Collection Of The Marx Memorial Library

Publishers Description: From the factory wall, the corner of the schoolroom, barrack blocks, shop windows and the collective farms, the political poster was every bit as challenging as the revolutionary projects that inspired it. Amid the foment of social change, art took service with the early Soviet state. Building upon traditional themes from Russian folk culture, the lubki and legend, the Revolutionary poster soon came to mix the new brutal geometry of industrialisation with visions of agrarian utopias, fresh-faced farm girls and a world of plenty. The new art of photomontage met Constructivism head on. In an attempt to fashion the future, only to be eclipsed as the 1930s wore on by Socialist Realism; the celebration and idealisation of all that was best in human labour was as radical as the reality they hoped to shape. These were images created to move and empower, to make or break social systems and to transform the very foundations of our world. This book has been produced by the GMB union in conjunction with the Marx Memorial Library with the help and expertise of TU ink and Evans Mitchell Books. AUTHOR: John Callow is Director of archives at the Marx Memorial Library, London. He is the author seven books on history and politics, including Marx in London and Change the World, the official history of Amicus the Union. Grant Pooke is a Senior Lecturer in the History & Philosophy of Art Department at the University of Kent. He is the author of several books including Francis Klingender 1907-1955: A Marxist Art Historian Out of Time and Contemporary British Art: An Introduction. Jane Powell is a researcher specialising in Modernist American Photography at the University of Kent. She was responsible for the Leverhulme funded project, which ran between 2008-10, to catalogue and conserve the unique collection of political posters held at the Marx Memorial Library. ILLUSTRATIONS: 60 colour

ISBN: 9781901268607