Rabochiy yavilsya pobeditelem v ekonomicheskoy I politicheskoy bor'be s burzhuaziey. Yemu teper' nado zavoyevat Znanie i Iskusstvo [The Worker Has Won the Political and Economic Struggle Against the Bourgeoisie. Now He Must Conquer Knowledge and Art]. A poster by [Vitaly] Usenko. Ordered by the Proletkult Federation of the East Caucasus Region, published by Don GIZ, 1921, 96 x 67 cm.

A beautiful poster promoting the Proletkult program of educating workers and raising new proletarian intelligentsiya. It is signed V. Usenko; tentatively attributed to avant-garde graphic artist Vitaly Usenko, a close friend of the Imaginist poet A. Marienhof and the illustrator of the first Imaginist poetry collection, Iskhod (1918).

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