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Sacred Stories are So Silly!
The letter С from The Anti-Religious Alphabet
193214 7/8 x 10 5/8 in. (37.8 x 27 cm)
Mikhail Mikhailovich Cheremnykh
Russia (Tomsk, Russia, 1890 - 1962, Moscow, USSR)
Full Title:The letter С from The Anti-Religious Alphabet
Object Type:
Print
Medium and Support:
Color lithograph
Credit Line:
Marion Stratton Gould Fund
Accession Number:
2001.20.16
Location: Not currently on view
Portfolio:
The Anti-Religious Alphabet
From a portfolio of 27 prints.
Although our protagonist is clearly reading, which is the point of learning the alphabet, he is also laughing at the religious stories he finds in the Bible. The premise of the Soviet educational movement can be summarized with another well-used slogan of the time: "Literacy: The Path to Communism." Students were expected to read selectively in a way that would advance the industrialization of society and the principles of atheist materialism.
Although our protagonist is clearly reading, which is the point of learning the alphabet, he is also laughing at the religious stories he finds in the Bible. The premise of the Soviet educational movement can be summarized with another well-used slogan of the time: "Literacy: The Path to Communism." Students were expected to read selectively in a way that would advance the industrialization of society and the principles of atheist materialism.
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- Literacy for Little Comrades: The Anti-Religious Alphabet Memorial Art Gallery 3/26/2004 - 6/18/2004
- Images of Atheism: The Soviet Assault on Religion 5/5/2022 - 10/2/2022
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