The Atomic Age and Cold War

Between Capitalist USA and Communist Russia USSR

Capitalism - allowing competition in buissnesses and companies
Communism - aimed to make financial equality

USSR partitioned Berlin in 1946

Start of Cold War

CIA started in 1946

USSR developed nuclear weapons

MAD - mutually assured destruction

west germany was capitalist , east germany communist berlin wall separated areas later.

1949 poster Berlin Airlift

Propaganda in america that raised fears of communism. Captain America

B movies, invasion of the body snatchers, take over of communists
metaphors of communism threat

Jackson Pollok
Willem De c.
cia promoted and supported these artists. an artistic movement that proved creativity and intellectual freedom supporting capitalism.

russian art was a lot more restricted

abstract expressionism was the kind of art that made socialist realism look even more stylised and more rigid and confined that it was. and that relationship

stalin paintings with children, socialist realism

russian satellite sputnik lead to space race between isa and russia
battle of who has better technology

atomic bomb followed, lead to an arms race. mad meant that atomic bombs would be futile.

duck and dover film

1962 cuban missile crisis
jf kennedy and n castro

helen serrano

Vietnam War, martin luther king jr speech
white and negro bear the heaviest burdens both on the front and at home

1967 outside pentagon protest pictures

uncle sam, i want out

woodstock

space race still continuing, USA first lands on the moon

peter kennard 1980s r regan/m thatcher alliance

berlin wall set up and divides east and west germany
berlin wall art graffiti

Revolutionary Soviet Russia

Towards the end of ww1, the Tsar and royal family deposed and replaced by a provisional government. A marxist communist group formed from the red army.

Red square moscow 1919

El Lizzitsky Abstract Paintings

Kazimir Malevich: The knife Grinder/ Suprematism

Russian propaganda/ usa / britain

Nikolai Kochergin C.1921

Adolf Strakhov 1924 poster of Lennin/ posters of women and equality.

Stroim magazine engineering/building

Gustav Klutsis collages: dynamic, diagonal lines, exciing colourful art

Constructivism is artistic progress and art and propaganda being hand in hand. lenin decreed establishment of v

Aleksandr Rodchenco
posters for advertising, beer, baby dummies, books etc.
magazine edited; Lef JOURNAL

posters for the man with a movie camera film
dziga vertov

Alexandr Rodchenco photography from different angles and a different viewpoint
El Lizzitsky photomontage works

Gustav Klutsis quote: the development of transport is one of the most important challenges for the implementation of the plan 1929

Early 1930 ended this art style because stalin wanted a new form of propaganda.

Russina revolution, russia tried to modernise and make everyone equal, communism rises.

Eizenstein film battleship

1920 in russia was golden age for art. hardship and famine in building communist empire is expressed in the art.

lenin dies, replaced by stalin, all creativity is crushed. different ideas are persecuted. socialist realism is the only ideal
socialist realism art/posters etc.