Art in Revolution - ACE032.3

Printing presses. Poster showing Lenin carrying communications mast etc. Advances in graphic art. Did You Volunteer? / Ti zapisalsya dobrovol’tsem? (Dimitri Moor (Orlov), 1920). Constituent assembly / Uchreditel’noe sobranie (Deni, 1921). We Will Not Surrender Petrograd / Petrograd ne otdalim (Moor, 1919). 7th November 1918: Stand up, Rise up, Working People… / 7 noiabria 1918: Vstavai podymaisia rabochii narod... (T. Zeiler, 1918). Vrangel still alive. Rest him without mercy / Vrangel' eshche zhiv. Dobei ego bez poshchady (Moor, 1917-1920). Let’s Defend Petrograd Bravely! / Grudii na zashchitu Petrograda! (Aleksandr Apsit, 1919). Exhibits at the Hayward Gallery, showing how artists "adapted the geometrical forms of Russian Futurist painting to give the poster new strength and impact". Poster of industrial workers. Gustav Klutsis’s poster for the first Five-Year Plan, Let Us Fulfil the Plan of Great Works / Vipolnim plan velinikh rabot. Machinery. Other posters showing Lenin and workers. Poster for Navy, Presses. Film and photographs of scenes during the Civil War years, when there was "neither money no manpower for new building", and artist transformed the streets with banners and posters, slogans, red bunting, "Cubist hoardings urging increased production", etc. Petrograd, the Palace Square decorated to mark the first anniversary of the Revolution by Futurist painter Nathan Altman. Designs for first anniversary hoardings in Moscow. Posters including The Master of the Earth by Gerasimov. Long Live the Red Fleet and Workman with a Hammer (both by David Sterenberg). Lebedev’s 1918 designs for the decoration of the Politseiskii bridge (The Police, or People’s Bridge) in Petrograd. Moscow mural by Nikolai Larkov, representing The Birth of the New World. Film of street and market scenes; designs for market stalls by Ivan and Olga Alexeyev. Film and photographs of processions and pageants with banners, decorated floats, and participants in allegorical and other fancy dress. Illustrations and designs (Yuri Annenkov, 1920), footage and photographs of re-enactment of the storming of the Winter Palace in Petrograd. Designs by Alexander Vesnin and Luibov Popova (1921) for the unproduced pageant Struggle and Victory. Popova’s set design (1922) for Vsevelod Meyerhold’s production of Fernand Crommelynck’s The Magnanimous Cuckold, bringing Constructivist principles to the theatre. Posters showing costume design. Photographs of performance. Working model of the set. Model of set designed by Varvara Stepanova for Meyerhold’s production of Alexander Sukhovo-Kobylin’s Tarelkin’s Death (1923). Photographs. Set designed by Vesnin (1924) for Alexander Tairov’s production of G. K Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday. Photographs. Model. Photographs of Mayerhold’s Civil War epic, The Earth in Turmoil (Sergei Tretiakov), with designs by Popova (1923).