Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 136058
Eastern Enemy
- Artist / 作者
- Hand Print Workshop
- Date / 年代
- 2002
- Medium / 技法
- 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Heisei / vam
- Digital record / 画像記録
- 2000 × 1500 px
- Source collection / 所蔵元
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Published by / 公開者
- 青木ソラ
- Rights / 権利
- Commercial license required
- Attribution / 表記
- Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Catalog note / 解説
This set of prints is derived from Olga and Alexander Florensky's multi-disciplinary project 'Russian Trophy', 2002. This was a collection of objects from an imaginary military museum, including ramshackle sculptures and fanciful war machines made from found objects and materials, banners, flags, graphics, paintings and films.The project satirised the fortress mentality and xenophobia of the Russian Empire and its successor the Soviet Union. Russia's historical rivals are not named explicitly but alluded to with thinly disguised versions of the flags of countries such as Britain ('North-Western Enemy'), France ('South-Western Enemy') and Japan ('Eastern Enemy'). Other flags comically repres…
This static, text-only record contains no image or externally loaded resource.