Agitatsiya za schast'ye: Sovetskoye iskusstvo stalinskoy epokhi / Agitation for Happiness: Soviet Art in Stalin's Era

Bremen: Editsion Temmen, 1994. Hardcover. Red cloth/boards; gilt decoration and Cyrillic lettering. 301 pp. with occasional bw and color illus. within text and a section of full-page numerous color and a few bw plates. No dj (as issued?). NF interior but with former owner's name on ffep (Russian art curator); covers rubbed at edges and very lightly bumped at front corners. Item #146889

Text in Russian. Art from the Stalin era of the 1930s to the early 1950s. Includes sculpture,ceramic figurines, paintings, and graphics, many featuring the theme of the Soviet society with Stalin as the "Father" and always at the center of the image; the workers, always smiling; the always healthy mothers and children, etc. An excellent visual history of the Soviet propaganda machine under Stalin, a view into the professional lives of artists at the time, and the problems of society, many which continue )not only in Russia) today. Catalogue from the exhibition at the State Russian Museum. With the catalogue of 1557 works, annotated, a list of abbreviations, names of painters, thorough preliminary text and the vivid works of art. An amazing catalogue.

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