Original CYRK Polish Lithograph Poster - Giant Clown Face Flower - Bohdan Bocianowski - 1972

This is an Original CYRK Poster from 1974 not a reprint. See photos for condition, this will look fantastic framed!

This print will be in a large mylar slip sleeve and not rolled.

More story on the Polish Cyrk Posters:

Bohdan Bocianowski, not only a graphic artist but also a caricaturist and cartoonist, studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. His work appeared widely in periodicals. He would eventually teach in the Warsaw Academy, and also serve as head of graphic design for RSW „Prasa-Książka-Ruch"/Robotnicza Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza "Prasa-Książka-Ruch" [Workers' Publishing Cooperative "Press-Book-Movement"].

What is now seen as the height of Poland's poster creativity was a paradoxical by-product of the height of Communist Party control over public messaging related to the arts and cultural endeavors from the mid-1940s to almost the end of the century. What had been, before the war, and dating back as early as the mid-19th century, florid and often text-heavy formats, where fonts and textual layout bore a predominant or equal burden with imagery in conveying information, yielded in the five decades after World War II to the primacy of the image on its own. Visuals became mischievous, allegorical, satiric, and parabolic, and so fantastically creative that they could make innumerable apolitical or counterpolitical appeals while eluding the specific controls of verbal censorship.

Size: 26" x 39"

26" x 39"

18%

Jacob R Herman | (914) 703-9154 | jacobherman83@gmail.com

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Stamford, CT 06901

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Saturday, 6/13, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm

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