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The Oxford handbook of communist visual cultures / edited by Aga Skrodzka, Xiaoning Lu, and Katarzyna Marciniak.
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/Created
New York : Oxford University Press, 2019-2020.
Description
1 online resource.
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Subject(s)
Art and society
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Communist countries
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Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Popular culture
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Communist countries
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History
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Editor
Skrodzka, Aga
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Lu, Xiaoning, 1975-
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Marciniak, Katarzyna, 1963-
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Handbooks and manuals
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Series
Oxford handbooks online.
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Summary note
The Oxford Handbook of Communist Visual Cultures critically examines and historically reconstructs the visual practices that have accompanied social transformations initiated by communist ideals in various parts of the world in the twentieth century. Bringing together diverse and broadly understood visual texts, including architecture, interior design, cartoons, computer games, fashion, photography, film and television, this volume explores how communism engages the visual. It is divided into five themed sections, focusing, respectively, on materiality; institutional factors and theoretical discourses; international and intercultural dimensions; visual production and strategic spectacles; and after-images, memory, and legacy of communist visual cultures.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of description
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 24, 2019).
Contents
Introduction: The Communist Vision Today
Notes
Bibliography
Part I: MATERIAL CULTURES, TECHNOLOGIES, INDUSTRIES
Chapter 1: Socialist Domestic Infrastructures and the Politics of the Body: Bucharest and Havana
Ideology as Infrastructure
From Avant-Gardes to Mass Housing
The Case of Bucharest
The Case of Havana
The Aesthetic Project of Domesticity
Bodies and Infrastructure
Chapter 2: Architecture in Series: Housing and Communist Idealism
Interwar Origins of Communist Housing Programs
The Mass Housing Question, c. 1945
Postwar Prefabrication and the Panel
Conclusion
Chapter 3: Restating Classicist Monumentalism in Soviet Architecture, 1930s-early 1950s
Reviving Neoclassicism at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
The Avant-Garde Alternative: Monumental in Scale, Muted in Stylistic Voice
Transition to Classicist Monumentalism: The Palace of the Soviets
Monumentalism as Expression of Postwar Soviet Triumph
Post-Stalinist Simplification
Post-Soviet Postscript: The Monumental Legacy Abides
Chapter 4: Esfir Shub's K.Sh.E. (1932) and the Movement of Energy
Energy in Soviet Visual Culture
Montage and the Soviet Photo Poster
Mobilizing Facts
The Coming of Sound-Promise and Frustration
K.Sh.E. and Sound-Energy
Postscript
Chapter 5: Soviet Wall Newspapers: Social(ist) Media of an Analog Age
What Were Wall Newspapers?
A Socialist Shadow in the Long History of "New" Media?
"Social" Reading, Social Corrective, and Social Organization
The Material: A Low-Tech, Hybrid, Mobile, and Destructible Medium
The Visual: Remix and the Ready-to-Use Cultures of Communist Iconography
Conclusion: The Cultural Heritage of Soviet Wall Newspapers
Chapter 6: Red Stars, Biorhythms, and Circuit Boards: Do-It-Yourself Aesthetics of Computing and Computer Games in Late Socialist Czechoslovakia
Biorhythms: A Popular Use of Serious Machines
The Culture of "Bastlení": Extending Hardware through Bricolage
Hammer and Sickle Just for Laughs: Irony and Subversion in Amateur Computer Games.
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Communist visual cultures
ISBN
9780190885540
0190885548
9780190885557
0190885556
9780190885564
0190885564
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