Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Hortatory

Arild Kristo
Preacher in Times Square
1962
gelatin silver print
Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo

Herbert Andrew Paus
Save Food and Defeat Frightfulness
1917
lithograph (poster)
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence

Anonymous British Designer
The Kitchen is the Key to Victory
Eat Less Bread

ca. 1916
lithograph (poster)
Museum Folkwang, Essen

Eric Gill
For Advertising on this Railway apply to W.H. Smith & Son
ca. 1909
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Albert Klingner
Van Munster's Dutch Bitters
ca. 1900-1902
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Albert Besnard
Souscrivez pour hâter La Paix par La Victoire
1917
lithograph (poster)
Milwaukee Art Museum

Juozas Galkus
Alcoholism
(Lithuanian public-health poster)
1969
lithograph
Wellcome Collection, London

Rolf Lagerson
Wash Hands before Eating
1955
lithograph (poster)
Röhsska Museet, Göteborg

John Melin and Anders Österlin
Test Your Tires Here - Free!!!
1964
lithograph (poster)
Röhsska Museet, Göteborg

Asger Jorn
Aid os Etudiants - Quil Puise Etudier e Aprandre en Liberté
(phonetic French)
1968
lithograph
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

Henri Cueco
Demonstration
ca. 1968
engraving
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau

Peter Staronosov
Success to Stalin's Five-Year Plan!
1933
wood-engraving
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Lev Vyazmensky
Solidarity between the Prisoners of Capital
and the Champions of World Socialism

ca. 1930
lithograph (poster)
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Alexander Rodchenko 
Workers of the World Unite!
(Red Square Military Parade)
1936
gelatin silver print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Gustav Klucis
Increasing the Pace of Industrialization
1931
photomontage
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Anonymous Russian Designer
Cleanliness to defeat Typhus
1921
lithograph (poster)
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

In the morning we put to sea with a gentle wind.  About midday, when the island was out of sight, a whirlwind suddenly arose, whirling our ship around and raising it some forty miles into the air.  But it did not deposit us back on the sea, for when we were hanging in midair, a wind struck, billowed our sails, and carried us along.  For seven days and as many nights we sailed through the air, and on the eighth saw a large tract of land suspended in the atmosphere like an island; it was bright and spherical, and bathed in a strong light.  We put in to it, anchored, and went ashore.  On exploring the land, we found it to be inhabited and cultivated.  We could see nothing from it during the daytime, but when night fell many other islands became visible near to it, some larger, some smaller, the color of fire.  There was also another land below us, with cities, rivers, seas, forests, and mountains; this we supposed to be our earth.

. . .  The king inspected us and, guessing from the look of us and from our dress that we were Greeks, asked us, when we said we were, how we had managed to cover all that distance in the air to get where we were.  We told him the whole story, whereupon he launched into a complete account of himself.  It appeared that he too was a man, called Endymion; he had been snatched form our earth one day while he was asleep and conveyed to where he now was, and on his arrival had become king of the country.  The land was, he said, what appeared as the moon from earth.

– Lucian, from A True Story (2nd century AD), translated from Greek by B.P. Reardon (1989)