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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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[s.l.] :
Manchester University Press,
2020.
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| Series: | Studies in design and material culture.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 p.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-209) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1526139863 9781526139870 1526139871 9781526139863 |