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Maker(s):Lamm, Leonid
Culture:American, born in Russia (1928-2017)
Title:Theater, from the Portfolio of Illustrations to House of Death by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Date Made:1977-1982
Type:Print
Materials:lithograph
Measurements:Sheet: 24 x 17 5/8 in; 61 x 44.8 cm; Plate: 18 1/2 x 14 in; 47 x 35.6 cm
Accession Number:  AC 2025.02.10
Credit Line:Amherst Whitney Collection of Russian Art Fund
Museum Collection:  Mead Art Museum at Amherst College

Description:
This story is about the prisoners who organized a theater in a prison camp, they were both actors and musicians. They designed their own costumes in which male prisoners played both gender roles and dressed accordingly.

Эта история о заключенных, которые организовали театр в тюремном лагере, они были и актерами, и музыкантами. Они разработали свои собственные костюмы, в которых заключенные-мужчины играли обе гендерные роли, и одевались соответственно.

Subjects:
Lithography

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