Politics in Color and Concrete : Socialist Materialities and the Middle Class in Hungary.

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Fehérváry, Krisztina

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TextSeries: New anthropologies of EuropePublication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2013.Description: 1 online resource (322 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780253009968
0253009960

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Politics in Color and Concrete : Socialist Materialities and the Middle Class in Hungary.DDC classification:

306.09439

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HN420.5.A8 .F44 2013

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Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Qualities of Color and Concrete; 1: Normal Life in the Former Socialist City; 2: Socialist Realism in the Socialist City; 3: Socialist Modern and the Production of Demanding Citizens; 4: Socialist Generic and the Branding of State Socialism; 5: Organicist Modern and Super-Natural Organicism; 6: Unstable Landscapes of Property, Morality, and Status; 7: The New Family House and the New Middle Class; 8: Heterotopias of the Normal in Private Worlds; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography.

Summary: Material culture in Eastern Europe under state socialism is remembered as uniformly gray, shabby, and monotonous-the worst of postwar modernist architecture and design. Politics in Color and Concrete revisits this history by exploring domestic space in Hungary from the 1950s through the 1990s and reconstructs the multi-textured and politicized aesthetics of daily life through the objects, spaces, and colors that made up this lived environment. Krisztina Féherváry shows that contemporary standards of living and ideas about normalcy have roots in late socialist consumer culture and are not me.

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Material culture in Eastern Europe under state socialism is remembered as uniformly gray, shabby, and monotonous-the worst of postwar modernist architecture and design. Politics in Color and Concrete revisits this history by exploring domestic space in Hungary from the 1950s through the 1990s and reconstructs the multi-textured and politicized aesthetics of daily life through the objects, spaces, and colors that made up this lived environment. Krisztina Féherváry shows that contemporary standards of living and ideas about normalcy have roots in late socialist consumer culture and are not me.