Word: agitprop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...designed, in the words of the catalogue, as "the last panel of the triptych" of exhibitions illustrating the relationships between Paris and three modernist capitals: New York (1977), Berlin (1978) and Moscow. The sheer size of the Soviet loan-some 2,000 works in all media, from paintings to agitprop posters, from architectural drawings to teacups and chess sets-put the center's director, Pontus Hulten, at a disadvantage in bargaining. The Russian side of the show is wholly chosen and catalogued by Soviet experts, whose essays (as one might expect) gloss over the brutal fate of the culture...
...mass culture, separate and distinct from the high culture of the salons and the Bolshoi; and in 1917 the Central Committee announced that "in art, the proletariat is drawn to ... strong, bright and clear forms, to what is complete and has definite meaning." This was probably meant to encourage agitprop poster design. The artists, however, took it as a stamp of approval for cubo-futurism, suprematism, constructivism and the other isms that the ferment of Western art had helped set off. In their enthusiasm to create a new culture that would be a synthesis of modernist fragmentation, folk...
...agitprop theater, the theater of propaganda and persuasion, Every Good Boy is a conspicuous success. By other dramatic standards, however, it is less satisfactory. Stoppard has always depended on gimmicks, but in his best work, like Travesties (1975), he has used them as a starting point to develop characters and situations. In Every Good Boy the gimmick has taken over, and the play ends where it began, with a brilliant conceit waiting to be developed...
...have fled to the West. In reprisal for supporting the attempted Dubček liberalization, thousands of professionals and technicians who stayed behind were forced into menial jobs. What remains of the once flourishing Czechoslovak culture is a wasteland of agitprop that French Poet Louis Aragon has called a "Biafra of the spirit...
...word of joyous warning. In Happy End, Brecht has dropped agitprop. The show has no redeeming social value save delight...