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- Title
"Us" vs. "Them". Communist Dialectical Images from Interwar Europe and Soviet Russia.
- Authors
Kácsor, Adri
- Abstract
Brawny male workers vs. bulging bourgeois men. Working-class mothers burdened by the hardship of poverty and childcare vs. elegant upper-class women enjoying a lifestyle of privilege. Such juxtaposed images of workers and the rich were prevalent in the visual culture of communism throughout the twentieth century, appearing on posters, illustrations, and other genres of political propaganda across countries and continents. Although these didactic propaganda images have rarely been considered in histories of modernism and the avant-garde, this article argues that they were among the key visual inventions of twentieth-century communist visual culture given their highly innovative aesthetics and juxtaposed structure that provided them a potential to become dialectical. Drawing on examples from interwar Europe and Soviet Russia, this article examines how didactic juxtapositions could become dialectical images, triggering political transformations while also making revolutionary class consciousness visible for the viewer.
- Subjects
EUROPE; COMMUNISM; INTERWAR Period (1918-1939); WORKING mothers; POVERTY
- Publication
View: Theories & Practices of Visual Culture / Widok: Teorie I Praktyki Kultury Wizuanlnej, 2021, Vol 31, p1
- ISSN
2300-200X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.36854/widok/2021.31.2439