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Cosmic Culture - Soviet Space Aesthetics in Everyday Life (Hardcover)
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Cosmic Culture - Soviet Space Aesthetics in Everyday Life (Hardcover)
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Since the dawn of time, people have been fascinated by the idea of
travelling to the stars, which is vividly illustrated by utopian
and dystopian works of architecture, the visual arts, and
cinematography. In many ways, the designs and symbols associated
with space travel also found their way into popular culture in the
former Soviet Union and its satellite states. Often spurned as
propaganda by the West, they informed the design of mass-produced
consumer goods and public art works in the USSR. While in our part
of the world space travel largely turned into a political race as a
result of the Cold War, its appeal found an aesthetic expression in
everyday life in the East. This book presents the results of
in-depth research and extensive travels through a total of seven
countries. Its prime focus is the impact of space exploration on
everyday life in its pioneering age between the late 1950s and the
1980s and the persistence of related concepts and utopian ideas in
today's society. Told as a visual story, it combines artistic and
documentary photography, portraits of contemporary witnesses,
landscape snapshots, and historical documents. It is in part an
historical investigation since many of the pioneers of the space
age are no longer alive and many of the formerly ubiquitous items
have disappeared. Text in English and German.
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