Wayland Rudd Collection
Wayland Rudd Collection The Soviet image of the African American, in posters, media and art, from the unique collection of the actor Wayland RuddWayland Rudd (1900-52) was an African American actor…
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Wayland Rudd Collection
The Soviet image of the African American, in posters, media and art, from the unique collection of the actor Wayland RuddWayland Rudd (1900-52) was an African American actor who moved to the Soviet Union in 1932 and lived there until his death in 1952. Using Rudd's personal story as a springboard, The Wayland Rudd Collection combines over 200 Soviet images (paintings, movie stills, posters, graphics, etc.) of Africans and African Americans produced between 1920 and 1980 with responses from contemporary artists, writers and scholars. He appeared in numerous Soviet films and theatrical performances, and served as a model for paintings, drawings and propaganda posters.
Bringing together American, postcolonial, and post-Soviet perspectives on race and Communism, the book maps the complicated and often contradictory intersection of race and Communism in the