Cartoon of the Week(16)..!
(here is Robert Minor’s work in the period of 1922-1925. He made his cartoons and articles for several magazines at that time. We quoted from those to bring you his marvelous arts from the bellow link. )
‘How I Became a Rebel’ by Robert Minor from Labor Herald. Vol. 1 No. 5. July, 1922.
‘Art as a Weapon’ by Robert Minor from The Daily Worker. Vol. 2 No. 216. September 23, 1925.
THERE HERE are two magazines lying on the table. One is the Saturday Evening Post, published in Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.A. The other is Bezbozhnik, published in Moscow, Union of Socialist Soviet Republics.
Each of these papers is the finest technical product of its kind that modern mechanical invention can produce. Hundreds of men and women are giving their entire working lives to produce these two publications–expert printers and engravers, highly developed intellectual specialists, corps of business employes and managers, and artists.
Centuries of slowly developed culture lie behind each of these men and women of the pen and brush. Into each of them has been poured something of the cultural accumulation from the forgotten ages of the men who carved images of the buffalo on the walls of their cave-dwellings, of the golden ages of Egypt, Assyria, China, Greece, Carthage and Rome, of the Middle Ages and of Modern times.
In the great and powerful United States, all of this cultural accumulation that can be adapted to the purpose is drawn out of these culture- bearers and fitted into the pages of the great and typical journal of this civilization–the paper which lies on my table. In the very printing of its title, “Saturday Evening Post”–is expressed every possible device for the maximum of effect.
On the other hand lies this other journal with the strange Russian characters spelling out the word “Bezbozhnik.” The very title of it is startling; it means “The Atheist.” The pictures and words thruout the pages are startling, and marvelously beautiful as well as ingenious. Equally here, every device of human ingenuity is used for technical perfection; the technical craft of Moscow in this respect seems to be even better than that of the American city. And also here all of the cultural accumulation of past ages–and of modern times–that could be adapted to the purpose, is poured out in blazing brilliance of the artists. Only, it seems that to the purposes of this magazine vastly more of the cultural accumulation of mankind has been adaptable. In theme and execution the work of the artists has a thunderous boldness, destructive as, fire and sword to the current standards of thought and the concept of life that we find in The Saturday Evening Post.
