: Posters from the Former Soviet Union, Cuba and China
http://www.iisg.nl/exhibitions/chairman/ (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Description: The site contains 33 posters from China, covering the years between 1950 and 1992. Each poster is presented (if available) with name of designer, year of production, title, publisher, size, collector, and a short description with background information. Separate pages with additional information are provided on: (1) designers; (2) collecting and collectors; (3) the conservation of posters (NOG fund); (4) this site and the copyright of the images; (5) postcard reproductions; and (6) further reading. Citation: The former Soviet Union, Cuba and China: three countries where posters played an important political role and got a large amount of artistic attention as well. This is a selection of 99 political posters, famous masterpieces next to equally beautiful, but unknown examples, drawn from the collection of the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam.
Subject: History of the Cultural Revolution, Drawing & Illustration [incl. posters] Region: Cuba CU, China CN, Soviet Union SU Language: English
Ressource type: Web directory, Bibliography, Still image, Directory of persons Imported from IGCS