‘TASS Windows’ — political agitational posters produced by the Soviet Union’s Telegraph Agency from June 1941 in Moscow, and later in other cities.
More than 130 artists and 80 poets worked in the “TASS Windows”. Together with them, people of various professions worked in the workshop: sculptors, theater artists, graphic artists, and art historians. The team of artists of the “TASS windows” worked in three shifts. Throughout the war, the workshop never stopped working.
The maximum circulation of “Windows” reached thousands of copies, but there were also small editions. New posters were pasted on shop windows, on walls and fences — just like printed ones.
The core of the group were those who in the early 1920s worked with the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky in the “ROST Windows” (propaganda posters): artists Mikhail Cheremnykh, Nikolai Denisovsky, Boris Efimov, Vladimir Lebedev, and Vladimir Kozlinsky.
“TASS Windows” are directly related to Kolomna. Viktor Perfilov, a war veteran, a citizen of Kolomna and an eyewitness to many city events before being drafted into the army in the autumn of 1943, mentioned the posters in his book “About Kolomna and the Front”:
Drawings and texts were glued onto sheets of wrapping paper, which were stenciled in three to five colors. The texts contained poems, slogans and appeals addressed to millions of people: front-line soldiers, representatives of the working class, those who work in the rear. Many artists and poets, famous not only in the Soviet Union but also in the world, instantly reacted to this or that event and manually created bright patriotic or satirical posters. Among them were a trio of artists under the pseudonym Kukryniksy: Mikhail Kupriyanov, Porfiry Krylov, and Nikolai Sokolov, as well as poets Demyan Bedny, Samuel Marshak, Konstantin Simonov.
More than 130 artists and 80 poets worked in the “TASS Windows”. Together with them, people of various professions worked in the workshop: sculptors, theater artists, graphic artists, and art historians. The team of artists of the “TASS windows” worked in three shifts. Throughout the war, the workshop never stopped working.
The maximum circulation of “Windows” reached thousands of copies, but there were also small editions. New posters were pasted on shop windows, on walls and fences — just like printed ones.
The core of the group were those who in the early 1920s worked with the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky in the “ROST Windows” (propaganda posters): artists Mikhail Cheremnykh, Nikolai Denisovsky, Boris Efimov, Vladimir Lebedev, and Vladimir Kozlinsky.
“TASS Windows” are directly related to Kolomna. Viktor Perfilov, a war veteran, a citizen of Kolomna and an eyewitness to many city events before being drafted into the army in the autumn of 1943, mentioned the posters in his book “About Kolomna and the Front”:
