Central Academy of Fine Arts Woodblock Print Combat Group, “Smash the Old World. Establish the New World” (People’s Republic of China, 1967) (courtesy University of Chicago Press) Cover of Communist ...

One of the common features of communist regimes is the use of art for revolutionary means. Posters in particular have served as beacons of propaganda - vehicles of coercion, instruction, censure and ...

In the thousands of propaganda posters produced in China between the birth of the People’s Republic in 1949 and the early 1980s, the beaming face of Chairman Mao Zedong watches over a surreal utopia.

SHANGHAI, CHINA—Shanghai is China’s financial capital. The former Western concession today shows little sign of the many bitter political battles fought over the last century. Tourists throng the Bund ...

“Posters have served as vehicles of persuasion, instruction, damnation and social discourse in every communist nation,” writes editor Ginsberg (The Art of Influence: Asian Propaganda) in the ...

In 1962, Poland (then a communist state) began commissioning local artists to design posters that would promote the state-run circus. At the time, the Communist Party had strict rules about what ...

SEOUL, South Korea — A visitor from South Korea began strolling into galleries in Poland a few years ago and stunned the owners by buying as many as 200 vintage posters at a time. Few in the Polish ...