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Klustis
photomontage with people "cut out" of original image.
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Beginning
in 1928, Latvian artist Gustav Klustis employs militant typography
and montage to promote Soviet messages through eye-popping posters.
His main mission is to glorify Stalin, which he does by making his
image large and always clearly in command. And when Stalin's purges
claim the reputations and the lives of the once-loyal, Klustis reworks
his material, as he does with this photomontage, beginning by hacking
two army marshals from Stalin's side. Marshal Yegorov, who remains
in the poster, is tortured to death in 1939. Klustis also suffers
under Stalin's regime; he is arrested in 1938 and is eventually
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