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1 online resource (249 pages) |
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Cultural Histories of Design Ser |
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Cultural Histories of Design Ser
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| Contents |
Cover page; Halftitle page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Figures; Acknowledgements; Glossary; Note on Translation and Transliteration; Introduction: The Communist Surround; Socialist objects as critical design; The communist surround; The language of Soviet design; Late socialism; Conclusion; Notes; 1 Art, Technology and Design in the Soviet Thaw; Technical aesthetics as a 'science of design'; Theories of design in art and aesthetics; Problems of design; Foreign influences; From chaos to harmony; The production art of the future; Objects of the future |
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ConclusionNotes; 2 Senezh Studio and the Emergence of a Critical Practice; The artist in design; Industrial policy and labour; Open form; Sites of experimentation: socialist spaces of the future; Methodological philosophy and the reassessment of artistic projecteering; The domestic information machine; Conclusion; Notes; 3 Semiotics, Environment and the Historical Turn; Abandoning industrial design; Redefining visual agitation; Conservation of architectural heritage; Retrospectivism, memory and history; Theatricalization; Conclusion: opening the semiotic cage; Notes |
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4 Design and the Projective ImaginationEnvironment and the 'museifi cation' debate; 'Projectivism' and design; Icons of a higher reality; Underground culture; Maiakovskii Square as a theatre of post-authoritarian urbanity; Conclusion; Notes; 5 A Quiet Conversation Among Th ings: Memory, Agency and Materiality at the End of History; Background: cultural ecology and projecteering in Pushchino; The abandoned house; Perestroika and time; Photographs; Tables; Icons; Conclusion; Notes; Conclusion; Notes; APPENDIX I Complete List of Senezh Projects; APPENDIX II Key People; Index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Design -- Research
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Architectural design -- Research -- Russia (Federation)
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Architectural design -- Research
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Design -- Research
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Russia (Federation)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781350021976 |
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1350021970 |
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