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NIKOLAI FEDOROVICH DENISOVSKII (1901-1981)
[MURDERERS.] TASS Window No. 715. 1943.
54 3/4x44 inches, 139x111 3/4 cm. Condition B / B-: repaired tears, replaced losses and staining at edges and in image; discoloration along seams; stenciled and painted. Multiple sheets, attached. Framed.
"In the immediate aftermath of the German invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, a group of artists and writers in Moscow joined forces under the auspices of the TASS News Agency, to produce large-scale posters [Tass Windows, so called as they were intended to hang in storefront or office building windows for all passers-by to view] - designed to reassure and rouse the Soviet citizenry while manipulating the information it received in the service of envisioning a new world order. Over the 1,418 days of World War II on the Eastern Front . . . the Tass studio produced some 1,240 designs" (Windows on the War p. 13). Devising almost a new image every day, they were each labor-intensive, multi-panel stencils, combining imagery with text. With text by Stepan Shchipachev. From an edition of 600. Windows on the War p. 149.
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