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Style and Socialism - Modernity and Material Culture in Post-War Eastern Europe (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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Style and Socialism - Modernity and Material Culture in Post-War Eastern Europe (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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This book explores the material and visual world of the socialist
Bloc from the late 1940s to the late 1960s. The essays, by authors
from a range of disciplines, examine the forms and uses of material
objects that made up the environment of life behind the 'Iron
Curtain', and investigates the particular ways in which these
objects came to represent the often divergent aspirations of
regimes and peoples in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.The two
decades after the end of the Second World War considered here
constitute two contrasting periods: that of post-war Stalinism and
the 'sovietization' or 'stalinization' of Eastern Europe; and, from
the mid-1950s, the period of destalinization and relative cultural
liberalization known as the Thaw. During the Thaw, consumerism and
a moderate fashion consciousness began to be tolerated or even
encouraged to varying degrees in different parts of the Bloc.
Style, regarded as a suspect notion under Stalin, became a
legitimate and even urgent issue. What forms of dress, home
furnishings and housing, as well as of fine art, would provide a
stimulating environment that could meet the physical and
ideological needs of -- and give shape to -- modern, socialist
life? Challenging the assumption that all cultural norms were
generated and effectively imposed by Moscow, essays in this
anthology investigate the interactions and exchanges between the
countries of the Eastern Bloc and and ask how, even in socialist
economies, the consumption of material objects -- or the refusal to
consume -- could project personal and collective identities and
even articulate resistance.Anyone who seeks to understand the
effects of state socialism on life in the Soviet Unionand Eastern
Europe, or who is interested in the intersection of politics with
art, design and material culture will find this book absorbing and
illuminating.
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