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SNP’s word of the day: Lubok
by Sarah Nicole Prickett October 18, 2011

Illustration by Lewis Mirrett

Word: Lubok

Meaning: Russian popular folk art print, common from the last half of the 17th century through the beginning of the 20th.

Usage: “It was the naive coincidence of picture and narrative that gave pleasure to the spectator-reader of the lubok.” — from some textbook on Russian post-modernism

Posted in Adrian WIlliams, AGO, cartoon, Celebrity, comic, Constructing Utopia, Lubok, Neubacher Shor Contemporary, propaganda, Russia, Sergei Gorshkov, SNP's word of the day

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