Main entry:

Åman, Anders.

Title & Author:

Architecture and ideology in Eastern Europe during the Stalin era : an aspect of Cold War history / Anders Åman.

Publication:

New York : Architectural History Foundation ; Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1992.

Description:

viii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Series:

MIT Press

Notes:
Translation of: Arkitektur och ideologi i stalintidens Östeuropa.
Includes indexes.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-274).
I. The Early Postwar Period. From the end of World War II to the Cold War. Reconstruction and new buildings -- II. The Cold War. From 1949 to the mid-1950s. Iconography, rhetoric, and the cult of Stalin -- III. The Example of the Soviet Union: Socialist Realism. Basic architectural concepts. The breakthrough of Socialist Realism in the Soviet Union. Causes and implications. Victory architecture of the 1940s -- IV. Realization of the Example in the People's Democracies. How the example was transmitted. Realization, country by country. The ideological context -- a newspaper article from 1952. The Soviet Union in 1932 versus the people's democracies in 1949 -- V. Socialist Content. The great construction projects of Communism. Concern for mankind. Ostentation and monumentality -- VI. National Form. DDR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria. National form: practice and implications -- VII. Monumental Buildings in the Capital Cities. Stalinallee in East Berlin. The Palace of Culture in Warsaw. Casa Scinteii in Bucharest. The new center of Sofia -- VIII. The First Socialist Cities. Stalinstadt. Nowa Huta. Sztalinvaros. Dimitrovgrad. The new cities: a glimpse of the future -- IX. The Logic of the Situation: Eight Biographical Sketches. Karel Teige and Jiri Kroha. Jozsef Fischer and Mate Major. Szymon Syrkus and Bohdan Pniewski. Hermann Henselmann and Kurt Liebknecht. The architects: aesthetic and ideology -- X. Four Political Works of Art. Pass me a brick -- building as a symbol. Young bricklayer of Stalinallee -- "the typical" in art. The Stalin Monument in Budapest -- damnatio memoriae I. The Stalin Monument in Prague -- damnatio memoriae II. The iconography of pictorial art -- XI. Thaw and De-Stalinization. From the death of Stalin till the end of the 1950s. The deescalation and abolition of Socialist Realism -- XII. How the Other Side Built: Interbau in West Berlin -- Architecture and Ideology: Discussion and Conclusion -- Three comparisons -- Alternative interpretations -- The negative choice.
Translation of: 'Arkitektur och ideologi i stalintidens Östeuropa. Ur det kalla krigets historia' Stockholm : Carlsson Bokförlag, 1987.

Resources:
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ISBN:

0262011301
9780262011303

Subject:

Architecture Europe, Eastern History 20th century.
Socialist realism and architecture Europe, Eastern.
Architecture and state Europe, Eastern.
Architecture Europe de l'Est.
Architecture Europe de l'Est 20e siècle.
Réalisme socialiste et architecture Europe de l'Est.
Architecture Politique gouvernementale Europe de l'Est.
Architecture Europe de l'Est Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture
Architecture and state
Politics and government
Socialist realism and architecture
Bouwkunst.
Socialistisch realisme.
Sociaal realisme.
Arquitetura (história) Séc.20 Europa.
Socialismo Europa.
Realismo Europa.
Architecture Europe, Eastern.
Architecture, Modern 20th century Europe, Eastern.
Europe, Eastern Politics and government 1945-1989.
Eastern Europe
Europe de l'Est Politique et gouvernement 1945-1989.
Europe, Eastern Politics and government 1945-
Architecture History

Form/genre:

History
Books.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 75050
Call No.: ID:92-B2396
Status: Available