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Politics in color and concrete : socialist materialities and the middle class in Hungary / Krisztina Fehérváry.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fehérváry, Krisztina.
- Series:
- New Anthropologies of Europe
- New anthropologies of Europe
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Material culture--Political aspects--Hungary.
- Material culture.
- Consumption (Economics)--Political aspects--Hungary.
- Consumption (Economics).
- Middle class--Hungary.
- Middle class.
- Post-communism--Hungary.
- Post-communism.
- Hungary--Social conditions.
- Hungary.
- Hungary--Economic conditions.
- Hungary--Civilization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (322 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Material culture in Eastern Europe under state socialism is remembered as uniformly gray, shabby, and monotonous-the worst of postwar modernist architecture and design. Politics in Color and Concrete revisits this history by exploring domestic space in Hungary from the 1950's through the 1990's and reconstructs the multi-textured and politicized aesthetics of daily life through the objects, spaces, and colors that made up this lived environment. Krisztina Féherváry shows that contemporary standards of living and ideas about normalcy have roots in late socialist consumer culture and are not me
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-253-00994-4
- 0-253-00996-0
- OCLC:
- 855505479
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