"But some are more equal than others"
Block, Herbert,
1909-2001
artist
still image
graphic
still image
Editorial cartoons-American-1960-1970.
Drawings-American-1960-1970.
xxu
1969
monographic
2/16/1969
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1 drawing : graphite, India ink, and opaque white over graphite drawing ; sheet 56 x 38.1 cm.
Editorial cartoon shows a pig, dressed in a military uniform wearing a cap with U.S.S.R. across the band, holding a gun and whip, speaking to angry farm animals represented as Romania, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Poland, Hungary, and West European Communist parties. In the background above the barn door is the hammer and sickle symbol with the banner "Animal Farm" below it.
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Caption label from exhibit "Herblock Looks at 1969": Using George Orwell's 1945 novel Animal Farm about the Russian Revolution as a metaphor, Herblock compared the current Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev (1906-1982) to the ruthless dictator Joseph Stalin (1878-1953). In 1968, Brezhnev introduced a new doctrine of "Limited Sovereignty" in order to justify the invasion of Czechoslovakia. In 1969, as the Eastern Bloc countries of Romania and Yugoslavia began to rebel against Moscow's control of their governments, the Soviet Union asserted its dominance.
Title from item.
Signed "Herblock" lower left.
Published in the Washington Post, February 16, 1969.
Copyright, 1969, by Herblock.
Exhibited: "Herblock Looks at 1969 : Fifty Years Ago in Editorial Cartoons" at the Graphic Arts Gallery, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., September 2019 - March 2020.
Forms part of: Herbert L. Block collection (Library of Congress).
Orwell, George,
1903-1950
Animal farm
Animals
1960-1970
Communism
1960-1970
Europe
1960-1970
Soviet Union
1960-1970
Romania
1960-1970
Czechoslovakia
1960-1970
Yugoslavia
1960-1970
Poland
1960-1970
Hungary
1960-1970
BLOCK, no. 7218
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
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Herbert L. Block collection (Library of Congress)
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Block, Herbert, 1909-2001.
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