The author Upton Sinclair argued in 1925 that “all art is propaganda.” Sinclair’s socialist critique argues that essentially there’s little difference, since art is the representation of ...

What did this mean for art? The post-revolutionary Russians were successfully transforming their country and using the socialist realist avant-garde as a propaganda tool to persuade their people of ...

CLINTON - Like Joseph Stalin’s ghost, a collection of Soviet propaganda posters brings alive the ... exploiters create a parallel universe of Socialist iconography that provides a revealing ...

April 12, Saturday -- China's use of art to promote socialist ideology during the years 1949-1989 ... Yang Peiming, owner and director of the Shanghai Propaganda Poster Art Centre in Shanghai, will be ...

and this is why the themes found in National Socialist artworks, literature, poster designs, films, theater productions, magazines, and spectacles are repetitive – because all together it was ...

The early Soviet propaganda posters highlighted in “Constructing ... a metaphor for modernity — and Socialist Realism, at least in the new USSR. "Constructing Revolution" refers not only ...

From 1958 to 1963 the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics created an incredible collection of posters with over-the-top propaganda lines like that to inspire Russians in the space race.

"Is propaganda, as we understand it, not also a form of art?" asked Joseph Goebbels ... never shied away from copying the most effective Socialist and Communist strategies, even well before ...

Trekking through the forest with hardened front line soldiers and living under the threat of American bombers: it’s not the normal experience for art school students, but it was one faced by ...

The government-sanctioned artwork—a callback to America's own wartime propaganda ... North Korea's new posters was reminiscent of early Soviet and some present-day Chinese socialist propaganda.