Cantor Arts Center
328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way
Stanford, CA 94305-5060
Phone: 650-723-4177
The Brave New World of Soviet Political Posters
This gallery talk, with Bertrand Patenaude, research fellow, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, highlights how the new Soviet regime pioneered the political propaganda poster and examines recurring themes, symbols, and messages.
MORE TALKS IN THIS SERIES:
OCTOBER 19, 12PM, An Introduction to The Crown under the Hammer: Russia, Romanovs, Revolution with Jodi Roberts, Robert M. and Ruth L. Halperin Curator for Modern and Contemporary Art, Cantor Arts Center
OCTOBER 21, 1PM, Russia’s Crown under Armand HAMMER! with Edward Kasinec, visiting fellow, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
OCTOBER 25, 2PM, A Russian Artist Paints the Revolution with Elena S. Danielson, archivist emerata, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
NOVEMBER 1, 12PM, Why Montage Fever? with Pavle Levi, director, Center for Russian, East European and Eurasion Studies and associate professor, Film and Media Studies, Department of Art & Art History
NOVEMBER 16, 12PM, An Introduction to The Crown under the Hammer: Russia, Romanovs, Revolution with Jodi Roberts, Robert M. and Ruth L. Halperin Curator for Modern and Contemporary Art, Cantor Arts Center
FEBRUARY 24, 2PM, The Brave New World of Soviet Political Posters with Bertrand Patenaude, research fellow, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
DECEMBER 6, 12PM, Hidden in Plain Sight with Marissa Schleicher Rhee, project archivist for exhibitions, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
JANUARY 13, 12:30PM, Russia's Crown Reprised with Edward Kasinec, visiting fellow, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
FEBRUARY 14, 12PM, Love & Revolution with Samira Bozorgi, assistant archivist for exhibitions, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
MARCH 3, 12PM, Hidden in Plain Sight with Marissa Schleicher Rhee, project archivist for exhibitions, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
IMAGE: Nikolai Mikhailovich Kochergin (1897–1974), 1 Maia 1920 goda. Cherez oblomki kapitalizma k vsemirnomu bratstvu trudiashchikhsia! [May 1, 1920. Through the ruins of capitalism to the universal brotherhood of workers!], 1920. Lithograph. Poster Collection RU/SU 2087, Hoover Institution Archives
Registration is not required. This program is free and open to the public.