Comradely objects Design and material culture in Soviet Russia, 1960s-80s

The Russian avant-garde of the 1920s is broadly recognised to have been Russia's first truly original contribution to world culture. In contrast, Soviet design of the post-war period is often dismissed as hack-work and plagiarism that resulted in a shabby world of commodities. This book offers...

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Otros Autores: Karpova, Yulia, 1986- autor (autor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [s.l.] : Manchester University Press 2020.
Colección:Open Research Library ebooks.
Studies in design and material culture.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Sumario:The Russian avant-garde of the 1920s is broadly recognised to have been Russia's first truly original contribution to world culture. In contrast, Soviet design of the post-war period is often dismissed as hack-work and plagiarism that resulted in a shabby world of commodities. This book offers a new perspective on the history of Soviet design by focusing on the notion of the comradely object as an agent of progressive social relations that state-sponsored Soviet design inherited from the avant-garde. It introduces a shared history of domestic objects, hand-made as well as machine made, mass-produced as well as unique, utilitarian as well as challenging the conventional notion of utility. This is a study of post-avant-garde Russian productivism at the intersection of intellectual history, social history and material culture studies, an account attentive to the complexities and contradictions of Soviet design.
Descripción Física:1 recurso electrónico (1 p.)
Formato:Forma de acceso: World Wide Web.
Bibliografía:Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 204-209) e índice.
ISBN:9781526139863
9781526139870