An Inescapable Date

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Sergei N. Kostin

Title

An Inescapable Date

Place

Soviet Union (Object made in)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1945

Medium

Stencil

Inscriptions

The fulfillment of the unshakeable decisions Of the Allied conference in the Crimea: In Germany the rumble of fighting is all the louder! The organizers of the Fascist crimes Are nearing their end. The day is near when we will note On a new page of our calendars: “Today we drove into a cage The rabid Fascist beasts!” The Fascists in a sudden panic Still try to threaten us somehow, Howling and screaming plaintively. But from this terrible calendar date, So nightmarish for them, those murderers, There will be no escape!

Dimensions

180.5 × 92.5 cm (71 1/8 × 36 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the USSR Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries

Reference Number

2010.91

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