Format:
1 Online-Ressource (322 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
025300991X
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0253009944
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0253009960
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9780253009913
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9780253009944
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9780253009968
Series Statement:
New Anthropologies of Europe
Content:
Material culture in Eastern Europe under state socialism is remembered as uniformly gray, shabby, and monotonous-the worst of postwar modernist architecture and design. Politics in Color and Concrete revisits this history by exploring domestic space in Hungary from the 1950s through the 1990s and reconstructs the multi-textured and politicized aesthetics of daily life through the objects, spaces, and colors that made up this lived environment. Krisztina Féherváry shows that contemporary standards of living and ideas about normalcy have roots in late socialist consumer culture and are not me
Content:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Qualities of Color and Concrete; 1: Normal Life in the Former Socialist City; 2: Socialist Realism in the Socialist City; 3: Socialist Modern and the Production of Demanding Citizens; 4: Socialist Generic and the Branding of State Socialism; 5: Organicist Modern and Super-Natural Organicism; 6: Unstable Landscapes of Property, Morality, and Status; 7: The New Family House and the New Middle Class; 8: Heterotopias of the Normal in Private Worlds; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography
Note:
IndexAbout the Author
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780253009913
Additional Edition:
ISBN 025300991X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780253009944
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Fehérváry, Krisztina Politics in Color and Concrete : Socialist Materialities and the Middle Class in Hungary Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2013 ISBN 9780253009913
Language:
English
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