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Maker(s):Vassiliev, Oleg Vladimirovich
Culture:Soviet (1931-2013), active in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and the United States
Title:The House with the Mezzanine, No. 18
Date Made:1991
Type:Print
Materials:Lithograph on cream paper
Measurements:Sheet: 29 3/4 x 21 in.; 75.6 x 53.3 cm
Accession Number:  AC 2010.156
Credit Line:Gift of Joan Afferica, L. Clark Seelye Professor Emerita of History, Smith College
Museum Collection:  Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
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Label Text:
The depicted monument to Lenin is located in front of the Smolnyi Institute in Saint Petersburg, where the Bolshevik revolutionaries had their headquarters in 1917. Vassiliev, however, mounts the monument against the backdrop of a contemporary photograph of a busy arcade. On the upper and lower margins, the artist quotes Lenin's slogan: "Every [female] cook must learn to rule the state." While this statement suggests a democratic participation in governing the state, Vassiliev points out the reality of "Real Socialism" by highlighting the word "dictatorship" on the pedestal.

BJ, 2013

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