Browse Items (57 total)

Kunnap, V., The schedule of repairs, Rutgers, 1961

"“The reconstruction and renovation of residential housing is progressing well in the majority of Leningrad districts. However, in some city areas…

Tags: Art, Bureaucracy, Cartoons, Construction, Housing, Leningrad, Repairs, Satire

Kunnap, V., The Paper "STREAM", Rutgers, 1960

"Poet: Suslov, V. “The Fighting Pencil” group, 1960

Look! This is the method of a conveyer belt,
But it seems to resemble more of a red…

Tags: Art, Cartoons, Economy, Khrushchev, Ministerial, Satire, Sovnarkhoz, The Fighting Pencil

None, The Labyrinth, Rutgers & Harvard, None

"Written on the papers: “Order, Instruction, Decree, Explanation to Paragraph No. 141, Supplement to Instruction No. 638, Item 45 of Order No. 651…”
…

Tags: Art, Authoritarian, Bad Management, Cartoons, Satire, Soviet Union

Kunnap, V., The house with ghosts, Rutgers, 1972

"Poet: Shumilin, V. “The Fighting Pencil” group, 1972
He is just a genius for a shady business deal:
Fake names on the payroll he shows as…

Tags: Art, Cartoons, Corruption, Dead Souls, Fighting Pencil, Posters, Satire

Rabinovich, Y. - First photo; Tsvetkov, A. - Second photo, The Guide!, Rutgers, Chatham House, & Harcourt Brace, 1969 - first photo; 1965 - second photo

First photo: In this cartoon we see a Mertonian bureaucratic personality emerge as a result of overemphasizing the importance of rules in sustaining…

Tags: Art, Bureaucracy, Cartoons, Organizations, Rules, Satire, The Fighting Pencil

Created / Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, Puck Building, The Fountain of Taxation, 1909, Library of Congress, 23-Jun-09

This illustration shows a large fountain with four basins, at top, supported by a crown and scepters, is a basin labeled "Millionaire", next resting…

Tags: Art, Basins, Classes, Fountain, Illustration, Taxation, Taxes

Carl Hassmann, The Crusaders, Library of Congress, 1906

"No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community." - President Theodore Roosevelt Caption:…

Tags: Art, Artwork, Corruption, Public Service

Kunnap, V., The case of pipe supply being a pipe dream, Rutgers, 1975

"Poet: Smirnovsky, S. The Fighting pencil” group, 1979

Memos, notices alone
Never get things done but stall.
And the pipeline, as we…

Tags: Art, Cartoons, Inefficiency, Pipeline, Satire, The Fighting Pencil

Rabinovich, Y., The "most promising" employee, Rutgers, 1964

"Poet: Tumarinson, G.

This boss is generous with promises—
He may make hundreds of promises...
But all his claims are simple proofs
Of his…

Tags: Art, Cartoons, Corruption, Empty Promises, Posters, Satire

Kunnap, V., The "gted" manager, Rutgers, 1968

"Poet: Alekseyev, V. ""The Fighting Pencil” group, 1968
Sycophants and bootlickers
Are untiring as such,
And sometimes
Being praised by them too…

Tags: Art, Cartoons, Corruption, Satire, The Fighting Pencil