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Male athletes and female athletes! Achieve the highest sporting performance, struggle for the sporting honor of your collective!

Poster Number: PP 1029
Poster Notes: The only flag other than the Soviet one fully identifiable is that of “Dynamo,” the all-union sporting society founded in the 1920s under the sponsorship of Dzerzhinsky and maintaining connections to the political police organs.
Media Size: 35x25
Poster Type: Lithograph and Offset
Publishing Date: 1950
Editorial Information: Editor V. Bespalova
Technical Information on Poster: Volume 2 sheets of paper; N-12; Price 1 ruble
Glavlit Directory Number: A-09937
Catalog Notes: PP 1029 Communist Culture c
Artist: Belopol'skii, Boris Naumovich — Белопольский, Борис Наумович
Boris Naumovich Belopol'skii was a multi-talented artist. While his chief concentration was in graphic art, Belopol'skii was also known as a painter and a monumentalist. A 1928 graduate of the Kharkov Art Institute, he lived in Kharkov until 1941 whereupon he moved to Moscow. During the 1930s the artist began designing posters. His artistic style incorporated photomontage and illustrative realism. Belopol’skii designed posters for Iskusstvo (Art) Publishing House whereby he generated a significant number of titles co...
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Printer: Printer not indicated —
Publisher: Iskusstvo (Art Publishing House), Moscow-Leningrad — Искусство, Москва-Ленинград
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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