Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 19

Not sure how I'd feel about this sculpture if I were a British woman.

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Posted By: Paul - Tue Feb 05, 2019
Category: Art | 1940s | 1950s | Europe | Russia

Comments

Looks the way I've pictured an inhabitant of Jinx, one of the worlds in Larry Niven's "Known Universe" series.

Posted by KDP on 02/05/19 at 10:32 AM

He seems to have had a problem with the British bombing Das Vaterland into submission.

Posted by Virtual on 02/05/19 at 11:46 AM

I think it was Mad Magazine that was looking forward to the future. It depicted a Russian child not knowing who Khrushchev was. One of the parents looks it up in the latest Soviet Encyclopedia, and the entry says "A minor art critic of the mid-twentieth century."

Posted by Joshua Zev Levin, Ph.D. on 02/05/19 at 05:05 PM

Odd that the caption gives his date of death as 1967 and says the sculpture "will be displayed ... in 1951." So was it written before 1951 or after 1967?

Posted by ges on 02/05/19 at 07:04 PM

Margret Thacher never looked better.

Posted by eddi on 02/05/19 at 09:09 PM

The hybrid super soldier project was coming along nicely!

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Posted by agent j on 02/06/19 at 11:12 AM

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