Title & Author:

Style and socialism : modernity and material culture in post-war Eastern Europe / edited by Susan E. Reid and David Crowley.

Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2000.

Description:

xiii, 213 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Style and socialism : modernity and material culture in post-war Eastern Europe / David Crowley and Susan E. Reid -- Warsaw's shops, Stalinism and the thaw / David Crowley -- Stalinism, working-class housing and individual autonomy : the encouragement of private house building in Hungary's mining areas, 1950-4 / Mark Pittaway -- Plastics and the new society : the German Democratic Republic in the 1950s and 1960s / Raymond G. Stokes -- The aesthetics of everyday life in the Khrushchev thaw in the USSR (1954-64) / Iurii Gerchuk -- The exhibition Art of socialist countries, Moscow 1958-9, and the contemporary style of painting / Susan E. Reid -- Modernism and socialist culture : Polish art in the late 1950s / Piotr Piotrowski -- Socialist realism's self-reference? Cartoons on art, c. 1950 / Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius -- Veils, shalvari, and matters of dress : unravelling the fabric of women's lives in communist Bulgaria / Mary Neuburger -- All you need is lovebeads : Latvia's hippies undress for success / Mark Allen Svede.

Summary:

This text takes as its premise the notion that material culture can help explain the experience of state socialism as lived by ordinary people in Eastern Europe.

ISBN:

1859732348
9781859732342
1859732399 (pbk.)
9781859732397 (pbk.)

Subject:

Material culture Europe, Eastern.
Socialism and culture Europe, Eastern.
Culture matérielle Europe de l'Est.
Socialisme et culture Europe de l'Est.
Material culture.
Socialism and culture.
Socialisme.
Moderniteit.
Materiële cultuur.
Eastern Europe.

Added entries:

Reid, Susan Emily.
Crowley, David, 1966-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 231652
Call No.: DJK24 .S79 2000
Status: Available