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  title info:
    title: Soviet metro stations
  title info:
    title: Works. Selections
  name:
    name part: Herwig, Christopher
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: photographer.
  name:
    name part: Hatherley, Owen
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Murray, Damon
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Sorrell, Stephen
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 247 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 17 x 21 cm.
  abstract: For us, said Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in his memoirs, there was something supernatural about the Metro. Visiting any of the dozen or so Metro networks built across the Soviet Union between the 1930s and 1980s, it is easy to see why. Rather than the straightforward systems of London, Paris or New York, these networks were used as a propaganda artwork, a fusion of sculpture, architecture and art that combined Byzantine, medieval, baroque and constructivist ideas and infused them with the notion that communism would mean a 'communal luxury' for all. Today, these astonishing spaces remain the closest realization of a Soviet utopia. Following his bestselling quest for 'Soviet Bus Stops,' Canadian photographer Christopher Herwig has completed a subterranean expedition photographing the stations of each Metro network of the former USSR. From extreme marble and chandelier opulence to brutal futuristic minimalist glory, 'Soviet Metro Stations' documents this wealth of diverse architecture. Along the way Herwig captures the elements that make up this singular Soviet experience, neon, concrete, escalators, signage, mosaics and relief sculptures all combine to build a vivid map of the Soviet Metro. 'Soviet Metro Stations' includes an essay by the leading architectural and political writer Owen Hatherley, author of the acclaimed books Landscapes of Communism (2015), Trans-Europe Express (2018) and The Adventures of Owen Hatherley in the Post-Soviet Space.
  note: Christopher Herwig, Owen Hatherley ; [edited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell].
  subject:
    geographic code: e-ru---
    geographic code: e-ur---
  subject:
    topic: Subways
    geographic: Russia (Federation)
    genre: Pictorial works
  subject:
    topic: Subways
    geographic: Former Soviet republics
    genre: Pictorial works
  subject:
    topic: Photography, Artistic
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Herwig, Christopher
  classification: 725/.310947
  identifier: 9780995745568
  identifier: 0995745560
  record info:
    record content source: ERASA
    record creation date: 190621
    record change date: 20200117110132.0
    record identifier: in00004085884