Design Literacy: Understanding Graphic Design

Bokser insisted that he was always free to do his work as long as
he did not expect the controversial works to be published. But he also
admitted that exercising total freedom in the USSR was never easy. So he
remained true to the ideals of reform, despite the fact that the inevitable
shift to a market economy proved deleterious to his art. Shortly after
returning to Moscow in 1991 , he wrote that “there has been less work
during the past two years, and I am afraid that the great cinema period of
Soviet posters will be over. With capitalism everything depends on money,
including film. And now the film distributors want Rambomovies and
Rambo-styled posters, which is really socialist romanticism all over again.
My fellow artists and I deceived the system for five years. Now, some
younger artists will come along and do the Ramboposters, but not us.”