Visual language and its aisles: Yuliy Ganf, at the Restaurant

Yuliy Abramovich Ganf; Ганф, Юлий Абрамович

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“This restaurant serves only one person” — Soviet anti-American cartoon from 1953 published in the satirical magazine Krokodil. pic.twitter.com/4HP8cv5MN7

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Image source: https://www.lambiek.net/artists/g/ganf_yuliy.htm > https://www.lambiek.net/artists/image/g/ganf_yuliy/ganf_yuliy_krokodil195304.jpg (29.01.2023)

Yuliy Ganf: ‚In America – At This Restaurant Only One Person Is Served‘ (Krokodil #4, 1953).

As of this date there isn’t a German entry – yet … – for the artist in the German Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuliy_Ganf

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My take on today’s situation:

Nobody is to be held accountable
for the biggest atrocities in human history,
not even the anthropocene.
Not the smallest, not the biggest injustices matter.
So people may say to themselves let’s just all increase the mess.

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(Bildsprache und ihre Schneisen)