Tom Cubbin

Soviet Critical Design

Senezh Studio and the Communist Surround
Herausgeber: Lees-Maffei, Grace; Fallan, Kjetil

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Produktbeschreibung

Soviet Critical Design is the first book to explore the socialist design practice of 'artistic projecteering', which was developed by the USSR's Senezh Experimental Studio in the 1960s. Tom Cubbin examines the studio as a site for the development of the design discipline in the optimistic environment of the 1960s Soviet Thaw. He also explores how designers adapted to the fast-changing Soviet Union of the 1970s and 1980s, considering their approach to critical projects highlighting the Soviet state's treatment of citizens, urban heritage and public spaces. Drawing on previously unpublished visual material from private archives and also extensive interviews, this book presents a new history of the late socialist period in the USSR, which gives insight into the creative strategies of designers who engaged their practice as a contribution to broader discussions on alternative models for socialist existence. Cubbin shows how artistic projecteering must be read as a utopian activity which privileged the political and ideological over the functional.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781350021990
• ISBN-10: 1350021997
• Artikelnr.: 49565890

Autorenporträt

Tom Cubbin

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Communist Surround Socialist Objects as Critical Design
The Communist Surround The Language of Soviet Design Late Socialism
Conclusion Chapter 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 Conclusion Chapter 2:
Senezh Studio and the Emergence of a Critical Practice The Artist in Design
Seminar for Design and Industrial Art - Programme of Work Summary of
Courses in Colour and Composition, 1969 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 Chapter 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 Chapter 4: Design and the Projective Imagination
Environment and the 'Museification' Debate 'Projectivism' and Design Icons
of a Higher Reality Underground Culture Maiakovskii Square as a Theatre of
Post-Authoritarian Urbanity Conclusion Chapter 5: A Quiet Conversation
Among Things: 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 Conclusion
End Matter Appendix I - Complete List of Senezh Projects Appendix II - Key
People Index