Soviet critical design : Senezh Studio and the Communist surround /: Senezh Studio and the Communist surround. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Tom Cubbin.
• Authors: Cubbin, Tom
• Contents: Introduction: The Communist SurroundSocialist Objects as Critical DesignThe Communist SurroundThe Language of Soviet DesignLate SocialismConclusion Chapter 1: Art, Technology and Design in the Soviet ThawTechnical Aesthetics as a 'Science of Design'Theories of Design in Art and AestheticsProblems of DesignForeign InfluencesFrom Chaos to HarmonyThe Production Art of the FutureObjects of the FutureConclusion Chapter 2: Senezh Studio and the Emergence of a Critical PracticeThe Artist in DesignSeminar for Design and Industrial Art – Programme of WorkSummary of Courses in Colour and Composition, 1969Industrial Policy and LabourOpen FormSites of Experimentation: Socialist Spaces of the FutureMethodological Philosophy and the Reassessment of Artistic ProjecteeringThe Domestic Information MachineConclusion Chapter 3: Semiotics, Environment, and the Historical TurnAbandoning Industrial DesignRedefining Visual AgitationConservation of Architectural HeritageRetrospectivism, Memory and HistoryTheatricalizationConclusion: Opening the Semiotic Cage Chapter 4: Design and the Projective ImaginationEnvironment and the 'Museification' Debate'Projectivism' and DesignIcons of a Higher RealityUnderground CultureMaiakovskii Square as a Theatre of Post-Authoritarian UrbanityConclusion Chapter 5: A Quiet Conversation Among Things: Memory, Agency and Materiality at the End of HistoryBackground: Cultural Ecology and Projecteering in PushchinoThe Abandoned HousePerestroika and TimePhotographsTablesIconsConclusion Conclusion End MatterAppendix I – Complete List of Senezh ProjectsAppendix II – Key PeopleIndex.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 729; Industrial / commercial art & design; Architectural design -- Research -- Russia (Federation); Design -- Research -- Russia (Federation); ARCHITECTURE / Interior Design / General; Design -- General; Art -- Russian & Former Soviet Union; Design -- History & Criticism; History of art / art & design styles; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350021983; 1350021989; 9781350021976; 1350021970
• Related ISBNs: 9781350021990; 1350021997
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 10, 2018).
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