Adventures in the Soviet Imaginary: Soviet Children's Books and Graphic Art

by Andrey Shlyakhter, Katherine Reischl, Michelle Maydanchik, et al.

Two of the most striking manifestations of Soviet image culture were the children's book and the poster. Both of these forms testify to the alliance between experimental aesthetics and radical socialist ideology that held tenuously from the 1917 revolutions to the mid-1930s--and did so much to shape a distinctly Soviet civilization. The children's books and posters in Adventures in the Soviet Imaginary plot the development of this new image...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0943056403
• ISBN13: 9780943056401
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: University of Chicago Library
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.4" x 10.9"