Propaganda and Pictorial Creation
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Whoever is interested in the putting into images of political messages and actions is offered a remarkable point of view by the Cold War period: the splitting of the world into two parts, the struggle between the two great blocks is also a “war of images”. The French communist party, main western political organisation supporting the Soviet “camp”, was an active actor in it. In the general frame of a particularly intense mass-propaganda, for which posters are the privileged media, the FCP largely called on graphic creation. This peak of production of painted or drawn posters moreover coincides with the promotion by the communists head office of a “singular pictorial school, inspired by the principles of socialist realism and devoted to play a specific role in the ideological struggle led by the FCP” If these two phenomenon differ in their principles of achievement, they nevertheless compose a “communist iconographical statement”, marking an original phase in the history of the putting into images of the political activity of this party.
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