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A print of Lysistrata, 1982, by Boris Bućan.
Aristophanes’s Lysistrata is an ancient Greek comedy in which the titular female character convinces women from warring city-states during the Peloponnesian War to deny their spouses sex until they negotiate peace.
In this arresting design for the Croatian National Theatre in Split, Bućan models the figures after those in Helmut Newton’s photographic diptych Sie Kommen, Paris (Dressed and Naked) that had appeared in an issue of French Vogue the previous year. While the women are posed identically in each shot, in one they are shown nude and in the other fully clothed. They were seen at the time as powerful, Amazonian beauties—a very 1980s take on modern feminism.
Boris Bućan was a Croatian artist and graphic designer of Ukrainian-Jewish heritage whose long career began during the late 1960s in Zagreb. Not committed to a single style, he continuously developed his artistic practice, often appearing to anticipate art movements that emerged outside what was then the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Measures 15 x 15 inches. Ships rolled.
