“Joseph Stalin” – 1937

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Hirshman’s Spartan use of materials to evoke the iconic was apparent in his caricature of the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. The highlight was his choice of a chest of drawers with military-like knobs for insignias as part of a bureau to represent Stalin’s bureaucratic regime.

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