{"product_id":"gabriel-jones-im-inside-tagging-architecture-in-eastern-european-cold-war-propaganda-postcards-9789083579573","title":"Gabriel Jones: I'm Inside: Tagging Architecture in Eastern European Cold War Propaganda Postcards","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Gabriel Jones\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Set Margins' Publications\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Set Margins' Publications\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Individual Photographers - Artists' Books\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSuperimposing contemporary graffiti tags onto Soviet architecture postcards, Jones' photomontages invoke a perpetual form of resistance to government superstructures\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough a mashup of mid-century state-sanctioned brutalist architecture and contemporary undercover graffiti tags, artist photographer Gabriel Jones remixes Soviet postcards of the 20th century into photomontages with an updated message. Top-down meets grassroots and sublime and subliminal clash in these kitschy collages: sometimes cynical, sometimes cheeky, sometimes profound. Each structure gains a slogan such as \"Honk if you don't exist\"; \"Make Orwell fiction again\"; \"Microsoft is a crazy thing to name your company\"; and \"Communist jokes are only funny if everyone gets them.\" Such decontextualization provides a humorous effect, but also brings a sort of recognizability to the new image on the postcard. This dynamic shows humanity's innate resilience to imposed superstructures--be it only in our minds or among our communities--which in turn lends itself to a mirror by which to view the superstructures imposed by contemporary politicians. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Set Margins' Publications","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47812732453015,"sku":"9789083579573","price":2110.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789083579573.webp?v=1778330895","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/gabriel-jones-im-inside-tagging-architecture-in-eastern-european-cold-war-propaganda-postcards-9789083579573","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}