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Description

Mekhanizator [Machine Operator]. Agitplakat No. 120. Moscow: USSR Union of Artists and the Moscow Union of Soviet Artists, [c. 1958]

1490 x 800mm., original pencil, ink and watercolour drawing, verse by N. Knyazeva, illustrations by N. Denisovsky, torn at edges

Provenance

Acquired by the owner from the printer.

Catalogue Note

This poster propounds the view that, while all sorts of domestic labour-saving devices exist for the home (razors, carpet brushes and washing machines), manufacturers have ignored the needs of important industrial and construction workers, who still have to do their work by hand,