Word: propagandas
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Suddenly, an epiphany. Why sit through hours of poorly delivered propaganda when the real fun was to be had safely outside the reach of the DNC’s censors...
...ARTS ART: NoKo's poignant propaganda...
...Utrecht-based Van der Bijl befriended a North Korean dealer who later switched from stamps to art. On a visit to Pyongyang in early 2003, Van der Bijl's contact offered him some souvenir landscapes from around Asia, but the Dutchman turned them down, expressing interest instead in the propaganda posters he had seen around the city. "But I was told those were not for export," recalls Van der Bijl. The next day, however, he was shown a few North Korean items-original gouaches for propaganda posters, and some oil paintings in the best tradition of Socialist Realism. After...
...Equally inescapable, says De Ceuster, is the "numbing sameness" of many of the works. The posters, all from 2002-4, are exhortatory propaganda, illustrating the policy slogans of the moment. Typically displayed everywhere from schools to hospitals, they provide "an image of what the regime is thinking about," says De Ceuster, "and what policies are being presented to the people as priorities." Graphically, they feature lots of upraised fists, upthrust rifles with bayonets, and shouting leaders rallying the people. A poster celebrating Kim Il Sung's dogma of juche (self reliance or autonomy) depicts a soldier, a worker, a farmer...
...Many of the posters trumpet Kim Jong Il's "Army First" propaganda that touts the military not only as a fighting force but as a model of devotion and discipline. (Not coincidentally, it is also a key power base for the Dear Leader.) In one poster, a rifle-toting soldier leads a miner, a steelworker, a farmer and a scientist, urging, "Behind the Army First Flag, Forward March!" The backgrounds of posters like this typically feature icons of North Korean modernity-missiles, smokestacks, construction sites, dams, electricity towers, desktop computers and walkie-talkies, which seem to possess the kind...