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Iofin’s portrait of his parents, painted before his emigration from the Soviet Union, was a sly protest against Socialist Realism. He painted in the style but parodied it by overloading his picture…
Contributor:
Michael Iofin
Places:
St. Petersburg, USSR (St. Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1984
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Ḥad Gadya (One Little Goat) is a song customarily sung at the end of the Passover seder. It recounts a sequence of events beginning with a young goat purchased by the protagonist’s father that is then…
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El Lissitzky
Places:
Russian Empire (Russia, Russia)
Date:
1918
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Mikhail Trakhman was one of several Soviet photographers dropped behind enemy lines by Sovinformburo, the main Soviet agency for the distribution of war-related information, to report on partisans who…
Contributor:
Mikhail Trakhman
Places:
Leningrad, USSR (St. Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1942