A prostitute invites the viewer to a bed containing a heart, where the bed is in the form of an open purse; representing the financial motive for prostitution. Colour lithograph after B.︠ T︡Sygankov, ca. 1987.
- T︠S︡ygankov, B.
- Date:
- [1987?]
- Reference:
- 660339i
- Pictures
About this work
Description
Before the Gorbachev era the existence of prostitution in the Soviet Union was officially denied, hence the significance of the assertion that it exists
Publication/Creation
[Leningrad] : Izdatel'stvo "Khudozhnik RSFSR", [1987?] ([Leningrad] : Izokombinat "Khudozhnik RSFSR")
Physical description
1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 44 x 32.8 cm
Contributors
Lettering
Proshu! Krasnorechiveĭ zhesta pozhaluĭ, ne syskat' ... Dokhodnym stalo mestom ne chto-nibud'-krovat'. Khudozhnik B.︠ T︡Sygankov. Stikhi A. Shkli︠a︡rinskogo.
Bears device (palette and pencil) of Boevoĭ karandash, with legend "Boevoĭ karandash. Izdatel'stvo Khudozhnik RSFSR"
Paraphrase of lettering: Well, there is no other gesture which is as informative as this. Nowadays the most lucrative place has turned out to be nothing but a bed
Reference
Wellcome Collection 660339i
Creator/production credits
Produced by the Leningrad group of artists called Boevoĭ karandash (Militant pencil), in the satirical series I smekh i grekh (Laughter and sin). Some of the anti-alcoholism posters which they produced in the late 1980s are reproduced in Stephen White, Russia goes dry: alcohol, state and society, Cambridge 1996, pp. 73, 143, 149
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Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores