Vision And Communism: Victor Koretsky and Dissident Public Visual Culture

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In the last 30 years of the Soviet Communism project, Viktor Koretsky's art struggled to solve an enduring riddle: how to ensure or restore Communism's moral health through the production of a distinctively Communist vision. This exquisite new volume offers the first glimpse into the full body of Viktor Koretsky's poster artwork, with extensive reproductions from a private collection that is being made available here for the first time. Koretsky's propaganda posters were among the most innovative and celebrated works of propaganda artwork produced during the Soviet era.

Robert Bird is an associate professor in the departments of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago. Christopher P. Heuer is an assistant professor of art and archaeology at Princeton University. Matthew Jesse Jackson teaches in the departments of visual arts and art history at the University of Chicago. Tumelo Mosaka is curator of contemporary art at the Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Stephanie Smith is deputy director and chief curator at the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago.