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Free Thinking Walter Benjamin, the Soviet Superwoman, Munch Superwoman: ‘Work, build and don't whine'

Running at the GRAD gallery in London from 18 June until 17 September 2016

  • Aleksandr Deineka - ‘Work, Build and Don’t Whine’
  • Unknown Artist - ‘Let’s liberate women from kitchen slavery to work in socialist industry. Let’s organise our canteens’
  • Georgy Petrusov - Cultural Delegation from Ukraine in Red Square
  • Unknown - Nadezhda Krupskaia and Clara Zetkin attending the Presidium of the III All-Russian conference on pre-school education
  • V. Spassky - ‘Mothers, Don’t Kiss your Children on the Lips and Don’t Let Anyone Else Kiss Them’
  • Piotr Galadshev - Female Tennis Player
  • I.Vaintrob - Dance
  • M.Sokolov - Woman Wearing a Hat
  • M.Sokolov - Portrait of A.Sofronova
  • T.Rein - Rural Workers

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  • Free Thinking—Walter Benjamin, the Soviet Superwoman, Munch

    Anne McElvoy discusses the fiction of Walter Benjamin and the Soviet superwoman.

    BBC Radio 3

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  • Portrait of the Artist: Käthe Kollwitz—Kathe Kollwitz, John Ashbery, Social Conservatism in US and Europe

  • Matthew Sweet Explores London Through Its Archives.—Being Human: What the Archives Reveal

  • Street Furniture Design—Hisham Matar, Street Furniture, Easternisation, Katherine Cooper on Storm Jameson

  • Superwoman: ‘Work, build and don't whine'—Walter Benjamin, the Soviet Superwoman, Munch

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