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Politics in color and concrete : socialist materialities and the middle class in Hungary / Krisztina Fehérváry.
Van Pelt Library HN420.5.A8 F44 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fehérváry, Krisztina.
- Series:
- New anthropologies of Europe
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Middle class.
- Consumption (Economics)--Political aspects.
- Consumption (Economics).
- Material culture.
- Hungary--Social conditions.
- Hungary.
- Social conditions.
- Hungary--Economic conditions.
- Economic conditions.
- Hungary--Civilization.
- Civilization.
- Material culture--Political aspects--Hungary.
- Consumption (Economics)--Political aspects--Hungary.
- Middle class--Hungary.
- Post-communism--Hungary.
- Post-communism.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 288 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2013]
- Summary:
- Material culture in socialist Eastern Europe is remembered as uniformly gray, shabby, and monotonous-the worst of postwar modernist architecture and design. Krisztina Fehérváry revisits this history by focusing on domestic space in Hungary from the 1950s through the 1990s, developing an innovative approach to the materiality of daily life. By analyzing the colors, objects, and spaces that made up this lived world, she demonstrates how the aesthetics of everyday experience were politicized. Her study shows that current standards of living and ideas about normalcy are not merely products of postsocialist transitions or neoliberalism, but have roots in late socialist consumer culture. This engaging study decenters conventional perspectives on consumer capitalism, home ownership, and citizenship in the new Europe. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction: the qualities of color and concrete
- Normal life in the former socialist city
- Socialist realism in the socialist city
- Socialist modern and the production of demanding citizens
- Socialist generic and the branding of state socialism
- Organicist modern and super-natural organicism
- Unstable landscapes of property, morality, and status
- The new family house and the new middle class
- Heterotopias of the normal in private worlds
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-280) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780253009913
- 025300991X
- 9780253009944
- 0253009944
- OCLC:
- 816563386
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