A prostitute invites the viewer to a bed containing a heart, where the bed is in the form of an open purse; representing the financial motive for prostitution. Colour lithograph after B.︠ T︡Sygankov, ca. 1987.

  • T︠S︡ygankov, B.
Date:
[1987?]
Reference:
660339i
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Please!

Description

Before the Gorbachev era the existence of prostitution in the Soviet Union was officially denied, hence the significance of the assertion that it exists

Publication/Creation

[Leningrad] : Izdatel'stvo "Khudozhnik RSFSR", [1987?] ([Leningrad] : Izokombinat "Khudozhnik RSFSR")

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 44 x 32.8 cm

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Lettering

Proshu! Krasnorechiveĭ zhesta pozhaluĭ, ne syskat' ... Dokhodnym stalo mestom ne chto-nibud'-krovat'. Khudozhnik B.︠ T︡Sygankov. Stikhi A. Shkli︠a︡rinskogo. Bears device palette and pencil. of Boevoĭ karandash, with legend "Boevoĭ karandash. Izdatel'stvo Khudozhnik RSFSR". Izokombinat "Khudozhnik RSFSR". Paraphrase of lettering: Well, there is no other gesture which is as informative as this. Nowadays the most lucrative place has turned out to be nothing but a bed. Izokombinat "Khudozhnik RSFSR".

Creator/production credits

Produced by the Leningrad group of artists called Boevoĭ karandash (Militant pencil), in the satirical series I smekh i grekh (Laughter and sin). Some of the anti-alcoholism posters which they produced in the late 1980s are reproduced in Stephen White, Russia goes dry: alcohol, state and society, Cambridge 1996, pp. 73, 143, 149

Reference

Wellcome Collection 660339i

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