Comradely objects : design and material culture in Soviet Russia, 1960s-80s / Yulia Karpova.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Karpova, Yulia, 1986- author.

Contributor:

Karpova, Yulia, contributor.

Series:

Studies in design and material culture.

Studies in design and material culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Soviet--20th century.

Art, Soviet.

Design--Soviet Union--20th century.

Design.

Material culture--Soviet Union.

Material culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 213 pages, 16 pages of plates) : illustrations (some colour); digital file(s).

Other Title:

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

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2020.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. 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.

Contents:

Front matter

Dedication

Contents

List of plates

List of figures

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations and acronyms

Note on transliteration and translation

Introduction

1 The aesthetic turn after Stalin

2 Technical aesthetics against the disorder of things

3 Objects of neodecorativism

4 From objects to design programmes

5 A new production culture and non-commodities

Epilogue

Select bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

Description based on print record.

OCLC:

1163806230

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access