22 Nov OPENNESS AND IDEALISM
OPENNESS AND IDEALISM - book launch
Soviet Posters 1985–1991
The Martha H. and J. Speed Carroll Collection, Skira editore, and Sarah King of SNAP Editions are pleased to invite you to the book launch of OPENNESS and IDEALISM: Soviet Posters: 1985-1991.
This lavishly illustrated book includes 200 striking reproductions of posters from the “glasnost” and “perestroika” eras. Andy Willimott and Pepe Karmel, the book’s authors, will deliver brief remarks. Cocktails and hors d’oeuvres will be served.
OPENNESS AND IDEALISM
The book
The book features approximately 212 reproductions of posters from the Martha H. and J. Speed Carroll Collection, and comprises insightful essays by Russian history scholar Andy Willimott and art historian Pepe Karmel, with anintroduction by J. Speed Carroll. The publication also includes three interviews with authors of posters from the period by Russian translator Bela Shayevich.
