Architecture socialiste d’une part, outils de propagande d’autre part
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Mehring Publishers presents two new photo documentary books
By Wolfgang Weber
30 March 2012
Mehring Verlag (Mehring Publishers) presented two new outstanding photo documentary books at the recent Leipzig Book Fair:
– Building the Revolution, dealing with architecture in the early Soviet Union
– Russian Revolutionary Posters by David King.
Building the Revolution (Baumeister der Revolution) is an opulent photo documentation of Soviet architecture between 1922 and 1935. Russian Revolutionary Posters (Russische revolutionäre Plakate) by David King documents poster art in the former Soviet Union from 1917 until the death of Stalin.