The Art Institute's "Windows on the War" looks at the Soviet battle for hearts and minds during World War II

An exhibit of wartime Soviet propaganda posters, at the Art Institute. by Bill Stamets Violence ricochets from wall to wall in "Windows on the War: Soviet TASS Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941?1945." Based on a long-overlooked Art Institute collection, the show offers an encyclopedic installation of 157 epic-scaled, World War II-era Soviet propaganda posters whose graphic style is at times as visceral as their shocking content.?

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