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The Second Avant Garde Design of Domestic Objects in Soviet Russia 1953 1991
Russian/Soviet avant-garde of the 1920s is broadly recognized to have been an integral part of the European avant-garde and Russia’s first truly original contribution to world culture. In contrast, Soviet art and design of the pos... Russian/Soviet avant-garde of the 1920s is broadly recognized to have been an integral part of the European avant-garde and Russia’s first truly original contribution to world culture. In contrast, Soviet art and design of the post-war period is often dismissed by general public as propaganda, hack-work and shameful plagiarism that resulted in a uniform and shabby world of commodities. Thanks to a growing body of scholarship on Soviet design, as well as to a recent work of enthusiastic Russian curators who organized Moscow design museum, a positive narrative of Soviet design have begun to emerge. In particular, the genealogical connection between Russian avant-garde and late Soviet design is generally noticed by scholars. However, the concrete ways of translating the avant-garde’s ideas into late socialist design and commodity production have received relatively small attention. This research project takes avant-garde’s legacy as a key link between post-war Soviet and Western, in particular Scandinavian, design. It addresses the question of temporal and cross-European design connections by focusing on a socialist object. The latter is considered both as a reference to the avant-garde precedent and a concept useful for reaching beyond the standard narrative of Soviet design as a poor imitation of Western models. By relying on archival and published sources I will analyze the transition of objects through different settings – designers’ desks and workshops, artistic and technical councils, factory floors, department stores and people’s homes. My research will present a complex history of Soviet design as a second Russian avant-garde and as a part of post-war European development of visual and material culture. Thus it will provide the historical background for the current Russian designers' search for interconnection with European design schools and trends. ver más
31/07/2018
AU
200K€
Duración del proyecto: 28 meses Fecha Inicio: 2016-03-11
Fecha Fin: 2018-07-31

Línea de financiación: concedida

El organismo H2020 notifico la concesión del proyecto el día 2018-07-31
Línea de financiación objetivo El proyecto se financió a través de la siguiente ayuda:
MSCA-IF-2015-EF: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF)
Cerrada hace 9 años
Presupuesto El presupuesto total del proyecto asciende a 200K€
Líder del proyecto
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