The annual New Year's Krokodil cover from 1951.
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| Krokodil 1951: 36 p.1 |
Friday, 30 December 2011
Wednesday, 28 December 2011
Medvedev satire
An article about the now-traditional Christmas/New Year Putin/Medvedev animated satire.
Аркадий Арканов
An article on "Straight Ahead Into the Past", Arkadii Arkanov's new book on Russian satire and humour.
Thursday, 22 December 2011
Guardian article
An article on The Guardian website referring to the history and growth of Russian satirical comment.
Saturday, 10 December 2011
Hitler satire in Ukraine
A Hitler billboard, protesting about a Stalin statue, in Ukraine. Not caricature, but interesting satire.
Russian Street Art
Interesting article on a street artist involved with the anti-Putin demonstrations, with some good visuals.
Friday, 9 December 2011
Post-election use of caricature in Putin fight-back
Very interesting article on Time Magazine's website including a reference to a deck of cards, produced by the Kremlin, with caricatures of the opposition leaders on the Jokers. Fascinating retaliatory use, creating a caricature war. I'd quite like a set of these cards, but in the meantime, there are some great images online.
These decks of cards have been handed out to supporters, turned into sandwich boards and worn around Moscow, turned into placards and taken on rallies, and now posted online.
Very interesting phenomenon. Comes so close to Putin's accusations of US meddling in Russian elections, for one thing. For another thing, the caricatures are satirical, but not as biting as some of the anti-Putin imagery (not that they were especially vicious, especially compared with Krokodil). There are a large number of references to Russian/Soviet historical personalities in these images, which would be fascinating to analyse. It also reveals some interesting attitudes to the power of caricature. There may have been other instances as well, but this is reminiscent of the USA's use of the deck of cards analogy for those wanted for involvement with humanitarian crimes in Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein.
29/1/12
More articles on the same theme here and here.
These decks of cards have been handed out to supporters, turned into sandwich boards and worn around Moscow, turned into placards and taken on rallies, and now posted online.
Images via: http://demidov-anton.livejournal.com/68581.html
Very interesting phenomenon. Comes so close to Putin's accusations of US meddling in Russian elections, for one thing. For another thing, the caricatures are satirical, but not as biting as some of the anti-Putin imagery (not that they were especially vicious, especially compared with Krokodil). There are a large number of references to Russian/Soviet historical personalities in these images, which would be fascinating to analyse. It also reveals some interesting attitudes to the power of caricature. There may have been other instances as well, but this is reminiscent of the USA's use of the deck of cards analogy for those wanted for involvement with humanitarian crimes in Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein.
29/1/12
More articles on the same theme here and here.
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