When Art Joined the Russian Revolution - WSJ
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The revolution was not televised, but it’s now in a museum. To mark the centenary of the 1917 Russian Revolution, the Art Institute of Chicago is looking at visual artists’ contribution to the event—from posters and films to Bolshevik cookies and a cupboard designed to cope with a housing crunch by doubling as a table for 12 or more.
“Revoliutsiia! Demonstratsiia! Soviet Art Put to the Test,” which opens Sunday, plunges viewers into the tumultuous years that swept Vladimir Lenin and his Bolshevik comrades into power in what was called “10 days that shook the world.”
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