Windows on the war : Soviet Tass posters at home and abroad, 1941-1945 / edited by Peter Kort Zegers, Douglas Druick ; with contributions by Konstantin Akinsha ... [et al.]

Publication | Library Call Number: D743.25 .W55 2011

Variant Title: Soviet Tass posters at home and abroad, 1941-1945
Format: Book
Published: Chicago : Art Institute of Chicago ; New Haven : [Distributed by] Yale University Press, 2011
Includes bibliographical references and index
Language: English
Edition: 1st ed

Physical Description: 400 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 33 cm
Contents: Introduction / Douglas Druick
Chronology of The Tass Studio / Lauren Makholm, Molly Zimmerman-Freeley
Tass Poster production / Lauren Makholm, Molly Zimmerman-Freeley
Hand-painted propaganda : The Tass Poster Studio / Konstantin Akinsha, Adam Jolles
Contronting stencil : an unorthodox medium for war posters / Jill Bugajski, Cher Schneider
The Visual Language of Tass / Adam Jolles
The functions of poetry : Tass Windows and the Soviet media system in wartime / Robert Bird
Paper ambassadors : friend and foe in the war of images / Jill Bugajski
Paintings went out into the street : the war of images along the Eastern Front / Konstantin Akinsha
Storied windows / Peter Kort Zegers
Selected abbreviations and publications
Biographies / Konstantin Akinsha, Robert Bird, Adam Jolles.
Other Authors/Editors: Zegers, Peter.
Druick, Douglas W.
Art Institute of Chicago.
ISBN: 9780300170238
0300170238
Notes: Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title organized by and presented at the Art Institute of Chicago from July 31 to October 23, 2011.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: War posters.
World War, 1939-1945--Posters.
Posters, Soviet.
Telegrafnoe agentstvo SSSR.
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