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Email Exhibition 6: Postcards from the Edge (July 29 - August 26, 2005)

Curated by Jesse Aaron Cohen. This exhibition presents a selection of postcards from Czarist Russia, dating to the first decade and a half of the 20th century. While a variety of postcard genres were popular at this time in Russia (romance, political satire, venerated personalities, etc.), these macabre scenes of death and anguish are particularly curious. In these postcards, the events that inspired such a bleak portrayal of Russian life--war, famine, Czarist abuses--have been idealized and mass-produced to be used for personal communication. These images are a selection from the YIVO Institute's postcard collection, Record Group 122.


March of Death, Shpungenberg. Publisher unkown.

Home at Last. Maimon. Publisher unknown.

The Apotheosis of War (1871), Vasily Vereshchagin. Publisher unknown.

Victor. F. Stuck. Publisher unknown. (caption is in Polish)

All Quiet at Shipka Mountain. Artist, publisher, unknown. (Reference to Russo-Turkish war)

Black Days. Artist, publisher, unknown.

Killed, Biereshaygen. Publisher unknown.

On the Battlefield, M. Faber. Publisher unknown.

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  • About this series:
    This is installation seven of a monthly series of Email Exhibitions. A new exhibition opens on the last Friday of every month. Each exhibition contains low-resolution images with a text and some supplementary readings. If you are unable to view the images, they can also be found at Email Exhibition 6: Postcards from the Edge

    shat out by by turd at August 11, 2005 02:51 PM