The Wayland Rudd Collection by Yevgeniy Fiks

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The Wayland Rudd Collection by Yevgeniy Fiks

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The Wayland Rudd Collection by Yevgeniy Fiks

The Soviet image of the African American, in posters, media and art, from the unique collection of the actor Wayland Rudd

Wayland Rudd (1900-52) was an African American actor who moved to the Soviet Union in 1932 and lived there until his death in 1952. He appeared in numerous Soviet films and theatrical performances, and served as a model for paintings, drawings and propaganda posters. Using Rudd's personal story as a springboard, The Wayland Rudd Collection combines over 200 Soviet images (paintings, movie stills, posters, graphics, etc.) of Africans and African Americans produced between 1920 and 1980 with responses from contemporary artists, writers and scholars. Bringing together American, postcolonial, and post-Soviet perspectives on race and Communism, the book maps the complicated and often contradictory intersection of race and Communism in the Soviet context, exposing the interweaving of internationalism, solidarity, humanism and Communist ideals with practices of othering, exoticization and racist stereotyping.

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Fiks, Yevgeniy: - Yevgeniy Fiks was born in Moscow and has lived and worked in New York since 1994. Fiks' work has been shown internationally, including in the Biennale of Sydney (2008), Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art (2015), and Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2011). Fiks is the author of six books: SOVIET MOSCOW'S YIDDISH- GAY DICTIONARY (Cicada Press, 2016), Lenin For Your Library? (ante projects), Communist Guide to New York City (Common Books), MOSCOW (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2013), and Monument to Cold War Victory (The Cooper Union/The Wende Museum).
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ISBN 13 9781946433275
ISBN 10 1946433276
Titel The Wayland Rudd Collection
Autor Yevgeniy Fiks
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Bindungsart Hardback
Verlag Ugly Duckling Presse
Erscheinungsjahr 2022-07-05
Seitenanzahl 160
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