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Raymond Longford's Mutiny of the Bounty 1916

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| Mutiny of the Bounty 1916 | In the Wake of the Bounty 1933 | Fletcher Christian apprehends Captain Bligh Contents Introduction Posters Production details Script  Chronology  Stills References -------------- The greatest of all Australian pictures ( Port Adelaide News , 23 March 1917) 1. Introduction One of the most famous adventure stories of the 18th century concerned the mutiny on board HMS Bounty , under the ship's captain Lieutenant William Bligh (1754-1817) and led by Master's Mate and Acting Lieutenant Fletcher Christian (1764-1793). It took place on 28 April 1789 and saw Bligh and 18 of his crew cast off the ship and forced to sail a small boat 3,600 miles west to Indonesia, whilst the mutineers took the Bounty to Tahiti and then on to Pitcairn Island, where it was scuttled and burnt. Those left on the island were 9 Englishman, 6 Polynesian men, and 12 Tahitian women. Robert Dodd, Fletcher Christian and the mutineers set Li...
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Valentina Nikiforovna Kulagina - Russian political poster artist

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Валентина Никифоровна Кулагина Valentina Nikiforovna Kulagina Introduction 1929. In June 2026 two Russian Constructivist political posters from 1929 and 1931 by Valentina Nikiforovna Kulagina (1902-1987) were offered for sale on Invaluable by the American firm Poster Auctions Inc., Chicago. The posters were spectacular examples of a combination of screen printing / graphic design featuring photomontage collage / Stalinist Soviet political propaganda and avant-garde artistic invention. They were produced by the young Valentina Kulagina, still in her 20s. As an artist she worked in paint, graphic design such as posters and book covers, and exhibition design. The following is a brief discussion of her major work in posters and of Kulagina's general oeuvre. A chronology is included to assist in providing historical context to her life and art. Reference should be made to sites listed in the References section below, such as blogger Visual Diplomacy for a listings of some of h...
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