Soviet Critical Design

Soviet Critical Design

Senezh Studio and the Communist Surround

Cubbin, Tom

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

12/2018

248

Dura

Inglês

9781350021990

15 a 20 dias

502

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Introduction: The Communist Surround
Socialist Objects as Critical Design
The Communist Surround
The Language of Soviet Design
Late Socialism
Conclusion

Chapter 1: Art, Technology and Design in the Soviet Thaw
Technical Aesthetics as a 'Science of Design'
Theories of Design in Art and Aesthetics
Problems of Design
Foreign Influences
From Chaos to Harmony
The Production Art of the Future
Objects of the Future
Conclusion

Chapter 2: Senezh Studio and the Emergence of a Critical Practice
The Artist in Design
Seminar for Design and Industrial Art - Programme of Work
Summary of Courses in Colour and Composition, 1969
Industrial Policy and Labour
Open Form
Sites of Experimentation: Socialist Spaces of the Future
Methodological Philosophy and the Reassessment of Artistic Projecteering
The Domestic Information Machine
Conclusion

Chapter 3: Semiotics, Environment, and the Historical Turn
Abandoning Industrial Design
Redefining Visual Agitation
Conservation of Architectural Heritage
Retrospectivism, Memory and History
Theatricalization
Conclusion: Opening the Semiotic Cage

Chapter 4: Design and the Projective Imagination
Environment and the 'Museification' Debate
'Projectivism' and Design
Icons of a Higher Reality
Underground Culture
Maiakovskii Square as a Theatre of Post-Authoritarian Urbanity
Conclusion

Chapter 5: A Quiet Conversation Among Things: Memory, Agency and Materiality at the End of History
Background: Cultural Ecology and Projecteering in Pushchino
The Abandoned House
Perestroika and Time
Photographs
Tables
Icons
Conclusion

Conclusion

End Matter
Appendix I - Complete List of Senezh Projects
Appendix II - Key People
Index
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Soviet design; USSR; Senezh; graphic design; postwar; cultural history; culture; art; objects; Russia; experimental design; artistic projecteering; creative; ideology; Cultural Histories of Design