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Title: Postcards from Utopia
Condition: New
Subtitle: The Art of Political Propaganda
Author: Andrew Roberts
Contributor: Andrew Roberts (Introduction by)
Format: Hardback
ISBN-10: 1851243372
EAN: 9781851243372
ISBN: 9781851243372
Publisher: Bodleian Library
Genre: History
Release Date: 01/04/2009
Description: Presidents, Prime Ministers and Secretary Generals of totalitarian states in the twentieth century have been highly conscious of the need to present a national image suited to the new political culture they sought to inculcate. In these regimes, state-sanctioned art performed a key function, giving visual dimension to an abstract political ideology. There is a striking similarity between the idealized images from these countries. This book presents about fifty postcards from the Soviet Union, Germany, Italy, Spain, and China, between 1920 and the 1960s.While some of the images are of a high aesthetic calibre, others are simply intended to portray a vernacular socialist realism or to cultivate the cult of the leader. Taken together, they form a fascinating look at the art of power and its expression at a time of political upheaval and experiment.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 126mm
Item Length: 170mm
Item Width: 17mm
Item Weight: 282g
Book Series: Postcards From...
Release Year: 2009

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