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For the prosperity of the nation!

Poster Number: PP 509
Category: Workers
Poster Notes: The poster has an added flourish seeing how the boy is wearing a Tatar-style tubeteika indicating the piece may have been designed for the Central Asian republics.
Media Size: 39.5x27
Poster Type: Lithograph and Offset
Publishing Date: 1952
Editorial Information: Editor O. Legran.
Technical Information on Poster: May 12, 1952. Publication No. 9830. Volume 1 sheet of paper. Order No. 864. Price 1 ruble.
Glavlit Directory Number: A03950.
Catalog Notes: PP 509 Workers
Artist: Koretskii, Viktor Borisovich (Koretsky, Victor) — Корецкий, Виктор Борисович
Of the photomontage poster artists of the 20th century, Viktor Borisovich Koretskii stands out as one of the most iconic. His prolific career in the Soviet Union began in the 1930s and ended in the 1980s, and his unique artistic style influenced generations of graphic artists. From 1921 to 1929, Viktor Koretskii attended the Moscow Secondary School of Professional Art, and by 1931 he was working as a professional graphic designer. Koretskii perfected his own technique of photomontage ...
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Printer: Krasnoe Znamia (Red Banner) Typography Workshop, Moscow — Типография Красное знамя, Москва
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Publisher: Iskusstvo (Art Publishing House), Moscow — Искусство, Москва
Iskusstvo was the Art Publishing House (A.K.A. Visual Arts Publishing) that was created in 1936 from Ogiz-Izogiz (State Art and Literature Publishing House). It disseminated books and journals dealing with graphic design and the fine arts, and it issued numerous posters. Since the Iskusstvo banner was part of the State Printing Works in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) and Moscow, its two main offices were located in those two cities.
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