Sunday, November 30, 2014

Caricature in the Service of Building of Socialism

Krokodil editors - Caricature in the Service of Building of Socialism (1932)

Metropolitan Museum of Art link

The editors of the famous satirical magazine Krokodil put together an exhibition and this is the result.  I couldn't resist posting it largely on the title since for those of us who can't read Russian it's a bit lightly illustrated.  There are probably studies of this but all I found quickly was David King and Cathy Porter's Blood and Laughter: Caricatures from the 1905 Revolution (1983; the US title is the less promising Images of Revolution: Graphic Art from 1905 Russia).