October 2010
1 post
“Beat the whites with the red wedge”, El Lissitzky
Lithograph by El Lissitzky name’s “Beat the whites with the red wedge” A red square vertically crushing the old order of things, paraphrases a billboard he had designed in the year before, the famous Beat The Whites with The Red Wedge. The latter, propaganda for the Red Army in its fight against the monarchist white troops, specifically addressed the Jewish population of Russia: Subverting...
