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Comradely Objects: Design and Material Culture in Soviet Russia, 1960s80s

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By (author): Yulia Karpova

The Russian avant-garde of the 1920s is broadly recognised to have been Russias 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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  • Weight: 739g
  • Dimensions: 170 x 240mm
  • Publication Date: 26 Feb 2020
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781526139870

About Yulia Karpova

Yulia Karpova is assistant archivist at Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives Budapest

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