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Manchester University Press Comradely Objects: Design and Material Culture in Soviet Russia, 1960s–80s (Studies in Design and Material Culture)

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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. An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence. -- .

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Brand: Manchester University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1526139871
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Graphic Arts
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 26 February 2020
Listed Since: 15 August 2019

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