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...Factory Communism - the Visual Culture of the Stalin Era, at the Schirn through early January. "The difference was that Stalin's was conducted by a totalitarian state and used to promote a single product - communist ideology." The show's 200 paintings, posters and films trace the development of Soviet "agit-art," from its inception in 1918 among the painters of the Russian avant-garde to the heyday of Socialist Realism in the 1930s and 1940s. One reason it became so effective was that, especially in the early years, it was artist-driven. There was oversight and censorship by apparatchiks...
...deny the unforgettable images he captured during a half-century of photojournalism. This week, a stunning retrospective of that work goes on display at the Bibliothèque National de France (BNF). An exhibit that is as much about the man as the pictures. The title, "De qui s'agit-il?" (Who is he really?), is a play on one of Cartier-Bresson's signature catchphrases, De quoi s'agit-il?, or What's it all about? "I didn't want the show to be just a collection of Henri's best photographs," says curator Robert Delpire, founding director...
Vetters says he encourages students to use the press for making agit-prop because he “wanted to find a way to get political views expressed graphically...
...Stage, radio and film: all were canap?s for the voracious man-child. Consider these three triumphs. In 1937, at 22, Welles and his Mer-cury Theatre had vitalized the New York stage with a "voodoo" " Macbeth," a "fascist" "Julius Caesar" and the agit-prop musical "The Cradle With Rock" - the last a sensation when the sponsoring WPA denied it a venue and Welles marched his company and the first-nighters to another theater, where the actors per-formed the show from the audience. In 1938, he elevated radio drama by bringing the Mercury Theatre to the air and, on October...
...hand-cuffed in a public square and left to be stared at. He is a zoo creature, behind the bars of the people's opprobrium. Jia would work on a larger canvas with Platform, a three-hour series of elegant tableaux about a music group that evolves from agit-prop in 1979 to Mandarin pop a decade later...