Rosta window
ROSTA windows ( Russian Окна РОСТА ) are Soviet propaganda posters that were issued by the Russian telegraph agency ROSTA , later the TASS news agency . They were created in collaboration with artists such as Vladimir Mayakovsky and dealt with political, military and economic topics.
The poster was a central form of expression - also of the Russian avant-garde - after the revolution of 1917. It was partly made by hand, using lithography quickly and extensively in color, as was propaganda already during the French Revolution. It contained sharp polemical content, clearly portraying friend and foe in text and pictures. In addition, there were also posters with more practical content, where measures to fight infectious diseases or visits to delousing institutions were recommended. Meaningful images were particularly important during this period because the Rosta Windows were aimed at an audience that was largely illiterate .
For the mass distribution of the latest news and political caricatures , these posters were then displayed in the shop windows of empty shops in Moscow . To distribute the posters in the country at the local party headquarters, only the transfer papers were sent and then the sheets were lithographically printed on site, which were then displayed in showcases or shop windows.
During World War II , the tradition was revived with the TASS windows designed by artists such as the Kukryniksy .
Web links
- Peter Urban: Majakovski and the Rosta Windows The time of October 18, 1968
- Examples of Rosta and Tass windows
literature
- Wiktor Duwakin: Rosta Window. Mayakovsky as a poet and visual artist . 3. Edition. Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1980.
- Sigrun Schindler: Reality and utopia of Soviet society in Mayakowski's work using the example of the Rosta window . Dipl., Univ. Hildesheim 1993.