Nikolai Fedorovich Denisovskii / Pavel Petrovich Sokolov-Skalia
Our One Thousandth Blow, 1944
The Art Institute of Chicago:Gift of the USSR Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries.
Soviet TASS Posters at the Art Institute of Chicago The exhibition ‘Windows on the War: Soviet TASS Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941–1945’ shows a group of monumental posters created by a collective of artists and writers during the brutal regime of Joseph Stalin.
July 31 through October 23, 2011
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Source: Art Institute of Chicago / theartwolf.com
The focus of the exhibition is primarily on the 50-year-old monumental posters that were unearthed from deep within a storage area for the Art Institute’s Department of Prints and Drawings, more than ten years ago. Measuring between 5 and 10 feet in height, these posters were created using the unconventional technique of stenciling.
The exhibition includes the 157 TASS posters mailed to the Art Institute by VOKS (the USSR Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries) as part of a campaign of international cultural diplomacy during the World War II.
The exhibition is accompanied by a 400-page catalogue, with essays by Peter Zegers, Cher Schneider and Robert Bird, among others. The catalogue costs $65 and can be purchased at the ArtInstitute’s Museum Shop.
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