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In 1929, disillusioned by the revolution, Mayakovsky wrote a protest play about the growing repressiveness of the regime.
Mayakovsky's scowling, angular, shaven-headed poetic boxer's mug was a dramatic advertising image unto itself, and Rodchenko's six portraits of him made him an icon (to be recycled endlessly in Soviet propaganda after Mayakovsky's dubious 1930 suicide, an act which even if self-willed was certainly nudged along by the state).
The sum of these unholy things, Mayakovsky suggests, is the feeding of his soul, the making of his poetry.
On the other hand, the horrified cries of Mayakovsky's authoritarians will be ringing in Joe Camel's ears as he roars out of town for the last time on his big motorcycle.
It would be culturally blasphemous to draw too close a parallel between an advertising symbol like Joe Camel and a tragic figure like Mayakovsky, who shot himself the year after he wrote his drama about the interplay of freedom, pleasure, and risk.
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