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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Futurism's Farthest Frontier | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Trick and Treat | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Ten Years of Twilight | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

...Agitprop. The players invest the slapdash plot with wit and perfect timing. Wheeling on crutches necessitated by a recent stage fall, Lloyd's Bill has a saturnine piratical mien worthy of Long John Silver. Though slightly reedy of voice, Meryl Streep renders the Brecht lines with impeccable intelligence. The marvel of the evening is the Kurt Weill score, arguably superior to that of The Threepenny Opera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Salvation in a Gin Mill | 6/13/1977 | See Source »

...word of joyous warning. In Happy End, Brecht has dropped agitprop. The show has no redeeming social value save delight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Salvation in a Gin Mill | 6/13/1977 | See Source »

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