Politics in Color and Concrete : Socialist Materialities and the Middle Class in Hungary /
Material culture in Eastern Europe under state socialism is remembered as uniformly gray, shabby, and monotonous - the worst of postwar modernist architecture and design. This book revisits this history by exploring domestic space in Hungary from the 1950s through the 1990s and reconstructs the mult...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
[2013]
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Introduction : the qualities of color and concrete
- Normal life in the former socialist city
- Socialist realism in the socialist city
- Socialist modern and the production of demanding citizens
- Socialist generic and the branding of state socialism
- Organicist modern and super-natural organicism
- Unstable landscapes of property, morality, and status
- The new family house and the new middle class
- Heterotopias of the normal in private worlds
- Epilogue.


