Tchoban Foundation.

Architektur im Kulturkampf = Architecture in cultural strife / [concept of the exhibition: Wladimir Sedow, Sergei Tchoban].

Berlin : Tchoban Foundation, ©2013.

247 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

"The history of Russian architecture in the first half of the twentieth century is riddled with contradictions. This is already evident in its origins. Whilst avant-garde Constructivism, radically daring even today, was mainly rooted in Moscow, the defenders of Neoclassicism were bound to the traditional architecture of St. Petersburg. Yet both currents strove to represent the architecture of the Revolution. As the two schools crossed paths in the 1920s, a widening rift revealed not only artistic but ideological differences. Neoclassicism was adopted by the Bolsheviks to embody their cultural agenda and was established during the following decades as the leading national style of the Soviet Union. The modernist current, in contrast, was drastically marginalised or at best, combined in a kind of synthesis comparable to western Art Déco. The exhibition comprising the extensive Sergei Tchoban Collection of architectural drawings, throws light on the ideological and artistic conflict between the two main architectural styles from the turn of the century to Stalin's death in 1953. Selected examples offer a view on the fraught arena between tradition and progress, art and technology, history and contemporary visions and not least on the cultural competition between the two Russian cities, Leningrad/St. Petersburg and Moscow."--Page 4 of cover.

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Sedov, Vl. V. (Vladimir Valentinovich), author.
Choban, Sergeĭ, 1962-
Sedov, Vl. V. (Vladimir Valentinovich) author.
Sedova, Irina author
Tchoban Foundation, host institution.
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Architecture in cultural strife

Location: Library main 307398
Call No.: BIB 252887
Status: Available