Modernism and the making of the Soviet New Man
by Tijana Vujosevic
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What is the connection between modern architecture and design on one hand and literature on the other? Between architecture and statistics? Architecture and theatre? Design and space travel? Tijana Vujosevic explores these questions through a study of the most radical and comprehensive of modernist projects: the invention of communist culture in the aftermath of the October Revolution. During this period, creative people from all disciplines shared a great zeal for inventing the Soviet citizen - the "new man" - as well as for designing and narrating the places in which he or she lived. Drawing unique connections between official culture and its "personalized" versions - utopia and reality, the will for progress and for tyranny - Vujosevic investigates architecture as a vehicle for Soviet subjectivity and the creation of self. In so doing, she traces the evolution of Soviet culture from a "productivist" model, according to which citizens are imagined as workers, to a "representational" one, where they are connoisseurs of socialism as a total work of art. This evolution provides key insight into the ethical dimension of architecture as a nexus between politics and aesthetics, and as a practice that defines modern culture in a fundamental way.
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What is the connection between modern architecture and design on one hand and literature on the other? Between architecture and statistics? Architecture and theatre? Design and space travel? Tijana Vujosevic explores these questions through a study of the most radical and comprehensive of modernist projects: the invention of communist culture in the aftermath of the October Revolution. During this period, creative people from all disciplines shared a great zeal for inventing the Soviet citizen - the "new man" - as well as for designing and narrating the places in which he or she lived. Drawing unique connections between official culture and its "personalized" versions - utopia and reality, the will for progress and for tyranny - Vujosevic investigates architecture as a vehicle for Soviet subjectivity and the creation of self. In so doing, she traces the evolution of Soviet culture from a "productivist" model, according to which citizens are imagined as workers, to a "representational" one, where they are connoisseurs of socialism as a total work of art. This evolution provides key insight into the ethical dimension of architecture as a nexus between politics and aesthetics, and as a practice that defines modern culture in a fundamental way.
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- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Publication Date May 2017
- ISBN/Identifier 9781526114860 / 1526114860
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- Primary Price 95 USD
- ReadershipGeneral/trade; College/higher education; Professional and scholarly
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions216 X 138 mm
- Reference Code8675
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