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Glorious Leader's Russian Avant-Garde Thread

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Posted: Wed 06 Sep 2006, 13:14

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Thanks for that comrade - its definantly a famous soviet poster - and the cover of one of Franz Ferdinands' albums does a modern version of it.

You might be interested to know that the model in that poster was Lili Brik, the wife of the Formalist literary theorist Osip Brik and the girlfriend of Vladimir Mayakovsky. She was the subject of Mayakovsky's long poem 'Pro Eto' ('About This'), and it's her face which appears on the front cover of the book (and in Glorious Leader's sig banner). In many ways, Lili Brik was the muse of the Soviet avant-garde of the 1920s. She knew everybody who was anybody in the Soviet avant-garde, and she inspired them to create their greatest works. Wikipedia has a page on her.

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Glorious Leader Resident Artist Joined: Tue 07 Jun 2005, 15:39 Posts: 3553	Posted: Thu 07 Sep 2006, 01:23 Fascinating - and she was personally crossed off the execution lists by Stalin (apparently).
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Red Rebel Embalmed Joined: Tue 21 Dec 2004, 15:53 Posts: 9617 Location: Penn State Ideology: Revolutionary Humanism	Posted: Tue 28 Aug 2007, 20:54 Quote: A famous poster by Rodchenko - I can't find what it is for, can anyone help me out? I have the poster in my dorm, the person is saying "unity together" or "together unity" or something with those words in it.
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Glorious Leader Resident Artist Joined: Tue 07 Jun 2005, 15:39 Posts: 3553	Posted: Wed 29 Aug 2007, 04:10 Quote: I have the poster in my dorm, the person is saying "unity together" or "together unity" or something with those words in it. Ok, that makes sense. I must update this thread...
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