agitprop art

From: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art | Date: 1999| Author: IAN CHILVERS | Copyright information

agitprop art (or agitational art). Art used to manipulate ideological beliefs, specifically to spread the ideals of Communism in Russia in the period immediately following the 1917 Revolution. The term ‘agitprop’ (an abbreviation for agitatsionnaya propaganda: ‘agitational propaganda’) was first used soon after the Revolution, and a Department of Agitation and Propaganda was established by the Communist Party in 1920. Agitprop art took numer...

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